ArticleBehavioural neurology2019
Long-Term Voluntary Physical Exercise Exerts Neuroprotective Effects and Motor Disturbance Alleviation in a Rat Model of Parkinson's Disease.
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- Voluntary wheel-running exercise improvement of anxiety or depressive symptoms in different models of depression.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of exercise training on nigrostriatal neuroprotection in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Oral sodium butyrate alleviates motor deficits and dopaminergic neuronal loss in 6-hydroxydopamine-induced Parkinson's disease rat model.BMC neuroscience · 2026Article
- Voluntary exercise alleviates neural functional deficits in Parkinson's disease mice by inhibiting microglial ferroptosis via SLC7A11/ALOX12 axis.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2025Article
- Moderate intensity aerobic exercise alleviates motor deficits in 6-OHDA lesioned rats and reduces serum levels of biomarkers of Parkinson's disease severity without recovery of striatal dopamine or tyrosine hydroxylase.Experimental neurology · 2024Article
- Research progress on the application of anti-gravity treadmill in the rehabilitation of Parkinson's disease patients: a mini review.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Blueberry juice augments exercise-induced neuroprotection in a Parkinson's disease model through modulation of GDNF levels.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2022Article
- Enriched Environment and Exercise Enhance Stem Cell Therapy for Stroke, Parkinson's Disease, and Huntington's Disease.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
- Automation of training and testing motor and related tasks in pre-clinical behavioural and rehabilitative neuroscience.Experimental neurology · 2021Review
- Exercise Training Improves Memory Performance in Older Adults: A Narrative Review of Evidence and Possible Mechanisms.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
- Probiotics Alleviate the Progressive Deterioration of Motor Functions in a Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Future Portrait of the Athletic Brain: Mechanistic Understanding of Human Sport PerformanceFrontiers in systems neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundParkinson's disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder affecting 7-10 million individuals. The pathologic hallmark of PD is nigrostriatal dopaminergic neuron loss, leading to several motor and nonmotor disturbances, such as akinesia, gait disturbance, depression, and anxiety. Recent animal studies have demonstrated that physical exercise improves behavioral and neuropathological deficits in PD. However, the exact underlying mechanism underlying this effect remains unclear. In this study, we investigated whether long-term exercise has neuroprotective effects on dopaminergic nigrostriatal neurons and whether it further alleviates impairment of the gait pattern, locomotor activity, akinesia, and anxiety-like behavior in PD rats.
methodsA hemiparkinsonian rat model, generated by unilateral injection of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) into the medial forebrain bundle, was applied to evaluate neuroprotective effects and motor behaviors. Comprehensive spatiotemporal gait analysis, open-field locomotor activity, akinesia, apomorphine-induced rotational analysis, and dopaminergic neuron degeneration level were assessed every week and up to 8 weeks after daily voluntary running wheel exercise.
resultsCompared with the sham-treated group, we found that 10 weeks of voluntary exercise (i.e., 2-week exercise before PD lesion and 8-week exercise post-PD lesion) significantly reduced 6-OHDA-induced motor deficits in the gait pattern, akinesia, and rotational behavior in the exercise group. Immunohistochemically, a tyrosine hydroxylase-positive neuron in the substantia nigra was significantly preserved in the exercise group.
conclusionsOur results demonstrated that long-term exercise training is effective for neuroprotection and further attenuates motor declines induced by 6-OHDA in an experimental model of PD. Our data further highlighted potential therapeutic effects of long-term physical exercise relevant to clinical effects for further potential application on human PD subjects.
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