ReviewExperimental neurology2022
Brain-iron deficiency models of restless legs syndrome.
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- Putative Animal Models of Restless Legs Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Evaluation of Their Face and Construct Validity.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2023Pooled it
- Improvement of restless leg syndrome in maintenance hemodialysis patients with limb ischemic preconditioning: a single-center randomized controlled clinical trial.Renal failure · 2023Trial
- Biopsychosocial barriers and facilitators in the everyday lives of patients with restless legs syndrome: a qualitative study.Annals of medicine · 2026Article
- Altered iron metabolism and iron therapy in restless legs syndrome.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- Dopaminergic hypersensitivity of the opioid-responsive striatal-entopeduncular pathway in a rodent model of restless legs syndrome.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Comparative Peripheral Blood Transcriptomic Profiles in Parkinson's Disease and Restless Legs Syndrome: An Exploratory Between-Cohort Analysis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Cortical Iron and Mesostriatal Dopamine Function in Schizophrenia: A Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
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- Mechanistic Overlaps Between Sleep and Headache Disorders: From Dopaminergic Dysfunction to Neuroinflammation-A Narrative Review.Clocks & sleep · 2026Review
- Treatment of restless legs syndrome by acupuncture combined with medicine based on pathophysiological mechanism.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Serum ferritin critical threshold fluctuations predict antipsychotic treatment discontinuation in pediatric Tic disorders: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Fresh Genetic Insights Into Micronutrients Influences on Restless Legs Syndrome Risk.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Reduced Brain Iron and Striatal Hyperdopaminergia in Schizophrenia: A Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping MRI and PET Study.The American journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Iron metabolism and ferroptosis in human health and disease.BMC biology · 2025Review
- Exploring the Role of Ferroptosis in the Pathophysiology and Circadian Regulation of Restless Legs Syndrome.Biomolecules · 2025Article
- Neuronal regulated cell death in aging-related neurodegenerative diseases: key pathways and therapeutic potentials.Neural regeneration research · 2025Article
- Associations Between Lifetime Histories of Iron Deficiency, Anxiety, Depression and Multiple Pain Conditions: An Observational Study Using a Large-Scale National Database.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- Variant restless legs syndrome masquerading as refractory shoulder pain: a case report and literature review.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Case Series and Literature Review on Phenotypic Variants of Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS): A Unique Phase of Typical RLS?Nature and science of sleep · 2025Article
- Association between iron intake and excessive daytime sleepiness in the community-dwelling Japanese: the Toon Health Study.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2024Article
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Abstract
Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common sensorimotor disorder for which two main pathological elements are fairly well accepted: Brain iron deficiency (BID) and an altered dopaminergic system. The ability to better understand the causal and consequential factors related to these two pathological elements, would hopefully lead to the development of better therapeutic strategies for treating, if not curing, this disease. The current understanding of the relationship between these two elements is that BID leads to some alterations in neurotransmitters and subsequent changes in the dopaminergic system. Therefore, rodent models based on diet-induced BID, provide a biological substrate to understand the consequences of BID on dopaminergic pathway and on alternative pathways that may be involved. In this review, we present the current research on dopaminergic changes found in RLS subjects and compare that to what is seen in the BID rodent model to provide a validation of the BID rodent model. We also demonstrate the ability of the BID model to predict changes in other neurotransmitter systems and how that has led to new treatment options. Finally, we will present arguments for the utility of recombinant inbred mouse strains that demonstrate natural variation in brain iron, to explore the genetic basis of altered brain iron homeostasis as a model to understand why in idiopathic RLS there can exist a BID despite normal peripheral iron store. This review is the first to draw on 25 years of human and basic research into the pathophysiology of RLS to provide strong supportive data as to the validity of BID model as an important translational model of the disease. As we will demonstrate here, not only does the BID model closely and accurately mimic what we see in the dopaminergic system of RLS, it is the first model to identify alternative systems from which new treatments have recently been developed.
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