Modeling Parkinson's disease with the alpha-synuclein protein

M Gómez-Benito, N Granado, P García-Sanz… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) is a key protein involved in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology. PD
is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neuronal cells in the substantia nigra pars …

Selective neuronal vulnerability in Parkinson disease

DJ Surmeier, JA Obeso, GM Halliday - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Intracellular α-synuclein (α-syn)-rich protein aggregates called Lewy pathology (LP) and
neuronal death are commonly found in the brains of patients with clinical Parkinson disease …

Cell biology and pathophysiology of α-synuclein

J Burré, M Sharma, TC Südhof - Cold Spring …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
α-Synuclein is an abundant neuronal protein that is highly enriched in presynaptic nerve
terminals. Genetics and neuropathology studies link α-synuclein to Parkinson's disease (PD) …

Reverse engineering Lewy bodies: how far have we come and how far can we go?

MB Fares, S Jagannath, HA Lashuel - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Lewy bodies (LBs) are α-synuclein (α-syn)-rich intracellular inclusions that are an important
pathological hallmark of Parkinson disease and several other neurodegenerative diseases …

The synucleinopathies: twenty years on

M Goedert, R Jakes… - Journal of Parkinson's …, 2017 - content.iospress.com
In 2017, it is two hundred years since James Parkinson provided the first complete clinical
description of the disease named after him, fifty years since the introduction of high-dose D …

Mechanisms of α-synuclein induced synaptopathy in Parkinson's disease

JC Bridi, F Hirth - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by intracellular inclusions of aggregated and
misfolded α-Synuclein (α-Syn), and the loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the brain. The …

PAAN/MIF nuclease inhibition prevents neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease

H Park, TI Kam, H Peng, SC Chou… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Parthanatos-associated apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) nuclease (PAAN), also known as
macrophage migration inhibitor factor (MIF), is a member of the PD-D/E (X) K nucleases that …

The role of the gastrointestinal mucus system in intestinal homeostasis: implications for neurological disorders

M Herath, S Hosie, JC Bornstein, AE Franks… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mucus is integral to gut health and its properties may be affected in neurological disease.
Mucus comprises a hydrated network of polymers including glycosylated mucin proteins. We …

[HTML][HTML] Parkinson's disease: animal models and dopaminergic cell vulnerability

J Blesa, S Przedborski - Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects about 1.5% of the
global population over 65 years of age. A hallmark feature of PD is the degeneration of the …

100 years of Lewy pathology

M Goedert, MG Spillantini, K Del Tredici… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract In 1817, James Parkinson described the symptoms of the shaking palsy, a disease
that was subsequently defined in greater detail, and named after Parkinson, by Jean-Martin …