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ReviewMovement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society2019

Neuronal vulnerability in Parkinson disease: Should the focus be on axons and synaptic terminals?

Yvette C Wong, Kelvin Luk, Kerry Purtell, Samuel Burke Nanni, A Jon Stoessl, Louis-Eric Trudeau, Zhenyu Yue, Dimitri Krainc, Wolfgang Oertel, Jose A Obeso and 1 more

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Review in Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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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

64 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Yvette C WongDepartment of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Kelvin LukDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Kerry PurtellDepartment of Neurology, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Hess Research Center 9th Floor, New York, New York, USA.
Samuel Burke NanniCNS Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Department of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
A Jon StoesslUniversity of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health, Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre & National Parkinson Foundation Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, BC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9778-7246
Louis-Eric TrudeauCNS Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Department of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Zhenyu YueDepartment of Neurology, Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Hess Research Center 9th Floor, New York, New York, USA.
Dimitri KraincDepartment of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Wolfgang OertelDepartment of Neurology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Jose A ObesoHM CINAC, HM Puerta del Sur, Hospitales de Madrid, Mostoles Medical School, CEU-San Pablo University, and CIBERNED, Instituto Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Laura A Volpicelli-DaleyDepartment of Neurology, Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Funding

Project 3: LRRK2 mediated macrophage responses in PDP50NS108675 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI WEST, ANDREW B · 2018 to 2022
$9.9M
Neuronal Autophagy: a Cell-Autonomous Protection MechanismR01NS060123 · NINDS · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI Zhenyu Yue · 2008 to 2026
$9.2M
The Role of Lysosomal Glucocerebrosidase in SynucleinopathiesR01NS076054 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI KRAINC, DIMITRI · 2011 to 2020
$4.1M
Propagation of Lewy pathology in Parkinsons diseaseR01NS088322 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LUK, KELVIN C · 2015 to 2025
$4.0M
Rational derivation of DA neuron subtypes from iPS cells for improved modelling of Parkinson's diseaseR01NS096240 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI AWATRAMANI, RAJESHWAR B, KRAINC, DIMITRI · 2016 to 2020
$3.0M
Role of presynaptic targeting of alpha-synuclein in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's Disease and Dementia with Lewy BodiesR01NS102257 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI VOLPICELLI-DALEY, LAURA A. · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondria-lysosome membrane contact sites in neuronal function and neurodegenerationK99NS109252 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WONG, YVETTE · 2018 to 2019
$179k
NINDS NIH HHS K99 NS109252NINDS NIH HHS P50 NS108675NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS060123NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS076054NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS088322NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS096240NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS102257
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While current effective therapies are available for the symptomatic control of PD, treatments to halt the progressive neurodegeneration still do not exist. Loss of dopamine neurons in the SNc and dopamine terminals in the striatum drive the motor features of PD. Multiple lines of research point to several pathways which may contribute to dopaminergic neurodegeneration. These pathways include extensive axonal arborization, mitochondrial dysfunction, dopamine's biochemical properties, abnormal protein accumulation of α-synuclein, defective autophagy and lysosomal degradation, and synaptic impairment. Thus, understanding the essential features and mechanisms of dopaminergic neuronal vulnerability is a major scientific challenge and highlights an outstanding need for fostering effective therapies against neurodegeneration in PD. This article, which arose from the Movement Disorders 2018 Conference, discusses and reviews the possible mechanisms underlying neuronal vulnerability and potential therapeutic approaches in PD. © 2019 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

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AnimalsAxonsChromosome PairingDopaminergic NeuronsHumansParkinson DiseaseParkinsonian DisordersPresynaptic TerminalsdopamineParkinsonsubstantia nigrasynapticsynuclein

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PMCPMC6879792

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