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ReviewBiomedicines2022

The Role of Rab Proteins in Parkinson's Disease Synaptopathy.

Arianna Bellucci, Francesca Longhena, Maria Grazia Spillantini

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Review in Biomedicines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. RAB32-Linked Parkinson's Disease: Deep Phenotyping, MDSGene Literature Review, and Application of SynNeurGe Criteria.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025
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  12. Endo-lysosomal dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases: opinion on current progress and future direction in the use of exosomes as biomarkers.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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  13. From Synaptic Physiology to Synaptic Pathology: The Enigma of α-Synuclein.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  14. X-Chromosome Association Study in Latin American Cohorts Identifies New Loci in Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2023
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  19. Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Arianna BellucciDepartment of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9581-1919
Francesca LonghenaDepartment of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6569-9412
Maria Grazia SpillantiniDepartment of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Clifford Albutt Building, Cambridge CB2 0AH, UK.
University of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Brescia · IT

Funding

Parkinson's UK G-0701Parkinson's UK G-1102Parkinson's UK G-1703
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In patients affected by Parkinson's disease (PD), the most common neurodegenerative movement disorder, the brain is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal system, leading to dyshomeostasis of the basal ganglia network activity that is linked to motility dysfunction. PD mostly arises as an age-associated sporadic disease, but several genetic forms also exist. Compelling evidence supports that synaptic damage and dysfunction characterize the very early phases of either sporadic or genetic forms of PD and that this early PD synaptopathy drives retrograde terminal-to-cell body degeneration, culminating in neuronal loss. The Ras-associated binding protein (Rab) family of small GTPases, which is involved in the maintenance of neuronal vesicular trafficking, synaptic architecture and function in the central nervous system, has recently emerged among the major players in PD synaptopathy. In this manuscript, we provide an overview of the main findings supporting the involvement of Rabs in either sporadic or genetic PD pathophysiology, and we highlight how Rab alterations participate in the onset of early synaptic damage and dysfunction.

Indexed as

alpha-synucleinautophagyGBA1LRRK2Parkinson’s diseaseRab proteinssynaptopathy

Identifiers

PMID36009486
PMCPMC9406004
OpenAlexW4292506183

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