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Single injection of small-molecule amyloid accelerator results in cell death of nigral dopamine neurons in mice
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- Chermenina, Maria (author)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för integrativ medicinsk biologi (IMB),Umeå University
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- Chorell, Erik (author)
- Umeå universitet,Kemiska institutionen,Umeå University
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Pokrzywa, Malgorzata (author)
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- Antti, Henrik (author)
- Umeå universitet,Kemiska institutionen,Umeå University
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- Almqvist, Fredrik (author)
- Umeå universitet,Kemiska institutionen,Umeå University
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- Strömberg, Ingrid (author)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för integrativ medicinsk biologi (IMB),Umeå University
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- Wittung-Stafshede, Pernilla (author)
- Umeå universitet,Kemiska institutionen,Umeå University,Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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- 2015-12-17
- 2015
- English.
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In: Parkinson's Disease. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2090-8083 .- 2042-0080 .- 2373-8057. ; 1
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Abstract
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- The assembly process of a-synuclein toward amyloid fibers is linked to neurodegeneration in Parkinson´s disease. In the present study, we capitalized on the in vitro discovery of a small-molecule accelerator of a-synuclein amyloid formation and assessed its effects when injected in brains of normal mice. An accelerator and an inhibitor of a-synuclein amyloid formation, as well as vehicle only, were injected into the striatum of normal mice and follwed by behavioral evaluation, immunohistochemistry, and metabolomics up to six months later. The effects of molecules injected into the substansia nigra of normal and a-synuclein knockout mice were also analyzed. When accelerator or inhibitor was injected into the brain of normal mice no acute compound toxicity was found. However, 6 months after single striatal injection of accelerator, mice sensorimotor functions were impaired, whereas mice injected with inhibitor had no dysfunctions. Injection of accelerator (but not inhibitor or vehicle) into the substantia nigra revealed singificant loss of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-positive neurons after 3 months. No loss of TH-positive neurons was found in a-synuclein knock-out mice injected with accelerator intor the substantia nigra. Metabolic serum profiles from accelerator-injected normal mice matched those of newly diagnosed Parkinson´s disease patients, whereas the profiles from inhibitor-injected normal mice matched controls. Single inoculation of a small-molecule amyloid accelerator may be a new approach for studies of early events during dopamine neurodegeneration in mice.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinsk bioteknologi -- Medicinsk bioteknologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Medical Biotechnology -- Medical Biotechnology (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Neurovetenskaper (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Basic Medicine -- Neurosciences (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Biokemi och molekylärbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Biofysik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Biophysics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- cell research
- cellforskning
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- ref (subject category)
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