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Ribose-cysteine and levodopa abrogate Parkinsonism via the regulation of neurochemical and redox activities in alpha-synuclein transgenic

Olumayowa K Idowu, Ademola A Oremosu, Olufunke O Dosumu, Abdullahi A Mohammed

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Article in Fly, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Olumayowa K IdowuDepartment of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.ORCID 0000-0002-6605-3266
Ademola A OremosuDepartment of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.ORCID 0000-0002-4166-5741
Olufunke O DosumuDepartment of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.ORCID 0000-0002-6229-3000
Abdullahi A MohammedDepartment of Human Anatomy, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Rwanda, Rwanda.ORCID 0000-0002-9082-7698
University of Lagos · NGUniversity of Rwanda · RW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD), the most prevalent type of parkinsonism, is a progressive neurodegenerative condition marked by several non-motor and motor symptoms. PD is thought to have a complex aetiology that includes a combination of age, genetic predisposition, and environmental factors. Increased expression of α-synuclein (α-Syn) protein is central to the evolvement of neuropathology in this devastating disorder, but the potential of ribose-cysteine and levodopa in abating pathophysiologic changes in PD model is unknown. Crosses were set up between flies conditionally expressing a pathological variant of human α-Syn (UAS-α-Syn) and those expressing GAL4 in neurons (elav-GAL4) to generate offspring referred to as PD flies. Flies were randomly assigned to five groups (

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AntioxidantsParkinson Diseasealpha-SynucleinAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedCysteineDisease Models, AnimalDrosophila melanogasterHumansLevodopaNeurotransmitter AgentsOxidation-ReductionRandom AllocationRibosealpha-SynucleinAntioxidantsCysteineLevodopaNeurotransmitter AgentsRiboseAlpha-synucleinDrosophila melanogasterlevodopaneurochemicalParkinsonismribose-cysteinetransgenic

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PMID38286464
PMCPMC10826630
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