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ReviewJournal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)2018

Chronic MPTP administration regimen in monkeys: a model of dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic cell loss in Parkinson's disease.

Gunasingh J Masilamoni, Yoland Smith

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Review in Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Incentive valence differentially engages open- and closed-loop basal ganglia circuits during movement initiation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. Temporal Variability in the Spiking Activity of Neurons in the External Globus Pallidus in Healthy and Parkinsonian Monkeys.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gunasingh J MasilamoniYerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, 954, Gatewood Rd NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA. gjeyara@emory.edu.
Yoland SmithYerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, 954, Gatewood Rd NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.
Emory Healthcare · USEmory University · US

Funding

Yerkes National Primate Research Center Role of type-I IFN in regulating COVID-19 induced inflammation and pathogenesisP51OD011132 · OD · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Joon Sup Lee · 2012 to 2026
$167.0M
Udall Parkinson's Disease Center at Emory University: Circuitry to TherapyP50NS071669 · NINDS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI WICHMANN, THOMAS · 2010 to 2015
$6.8M
Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center at Emory UniversityP50NS098685 · NINDS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI SMITH, YOLAND · 2016 to 2020
$6.7M
Thalamic interactions with the striatumR01NS083386 · NINDS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI WICHMANN, THOMAS · 2013 to 2017
$2.1M
Thalamostriatal System in ParkinsonismR01NS062876 · NINDS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI WICHMANN, THOMAS · 2009 to 2011
$1.0M
NIH HHS P51 OD011132NINDS NIH HHS P50 NS071669NINDS NIH HHS P50 NS098685NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS062876NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS083386
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder clinically characterized by cardinal motor deficits including bradykinesia, tremor, rigidity and postural instability. Over the past decades, it has become clear that PD symptoms extend far beyond motor signs to include cognitive, autonomic and psychiatric impairments, most likely resulting from cortical and subcortical lesions of non-dopaminergic systems. In addition to nigrostriatal dopaminergic degeneration, pathological examination of PD brains, indeed, reveals widespread distribution of intracytoplasmic inclusions (Lewy bodies) and death of non-dopaminergic neurons in the brainstem and thalamus. For that past three decades, the MPTP-treated monkey has been recognized as the gold standard PD model because it displays some of the key behavioral and pathophysiological changes seen in PD patients. However, a common criticism raised by some authors about this model, and other neurotoxin-based models of PD, is the lack of neuronal loss beyond the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system. In this review, we argue that this assumption is largely incorrect and solely based on data from monkeys intoxicated with acute administration of MPTP. Work achieved in our laboratory and others strongly suggest that long-term chronic administration of MPTP leads to brain pathology beyond the dopaminergic system that displays close similarities to that seen in PD patients. This review critically examines these data and suggests that the chronically MPTP-treated nonhuman primate model may be suitable to study the pathophysiology and therapeutics of some non-motor features of PD.

Indexed as

AnimalsCorpus StriatumDopaminergic NeuronsHaplorhiniNerve DegenerationParkinsonian DisordersSubstantia NigraAcetylcholineExtra-striatal dopamineMPTP monkeyNigrostriatal dopamineNorepinephrineParkinson’s diseaseSerotoninα-Synuclein

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PMID28861737
PMCPMC5826821
OpenAlexW2753925638

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