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ReviewThe FEBS journal2018

Determinants of dopaminergic neuron loss in Parkinson's disease.

Dalton James Surmeier

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Review in The FEBS journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 269 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

269 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Impact of aging on animal models of Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Dalton James SurmeierDepartment of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.

Funding

SYNAPTIC CONTROLOF PALLIDAL ACTIVITYP50NS047085 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI SURMEIER, DALTON JAMES · 2003 to 2018
$19.2M
NIH HHS NS047085NINDS NIH HHS P50 NS047085
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cardinal motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) are caused by the death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). Alpha-synuclein (aSYN) pathology and mitochondrial dysfunction have been implicated in PD pathogenesis, but until recently it was unclear why SNc dopaminergic neurons should be particularly vulnerable to these two types of insult. In this brief review, the evidence that SNc dopaminergic neurons have an anatomical, physiological, and biochemical phenotype that predisposes them to mitochondrial dysfunction and synuclein pathology is summarized. The recognition that certain traits may predispose neurons to PD-linked pathology creates translational opportunities for slowing or stopping disease progression.

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Oxidative Stressalpha-SynucleinAnimalsCalciumDopaminergic NeuronsHumansMitochondriaParkinson Diseasealpha-SynucleinCalciumautophagyaxonbioenergeticscalciumdopaminlewy pathologymitochondriasynuclein

Identifiers

PMID30028088
PMCPMC6546423

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