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ArticleScientific reports2024

Knocking out the LRRK2 gene increases sensitivity to wavelength information in rats.

Freja Gam Østergaard

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Freja Gam ØstergaardH. Lundbeck A/S, Ottiliavej 9, 2500, Valby, Denmark. f.g.ostergaard@rug.nl.
Lundbeck (Denmark) · DK

Funding

EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 641805
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is a gene related to familial Parkinson's disease (PD). It has been associated with nonmotor symptoms such as disturbances in the visual system affecting colour discrimination and contrast sensitivity. This study examined how deficiency of LRRK2 impacts visual processing in adult rats. Additionally, we investigated whether these changes can be modelled in wild-type rats by administering the LRRK2 inhibitor PFE360. Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) and steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) were recorded in the visual cortex and superior colliculus of female LRRK2-knockout and wild-type rats to study how the innate absence of LRRK2 changes visual processing. Exposing the animals to stimulation at five different wavelengths revealed an interaction between genotype and the response to stimulation at different wavelengths. Differences in VEP amplitudes and latencies were robust and barely impacted by the presence of the LRRK2 inhibitor PFE360, suggesting a developmental effect. Taken together, these results indicate that alterations in visual processing were related to developmental deficiency of LRRK2 and not acute deficiency of LRRK2, indicating a role of LRRK2 in the functional development of the visual system and synaptic transmission.

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Evoked Potentials, VisualVisual CortexAnimalsFemaleLeucine-Rich Repeat Serine-Threonine Protein Kinase-2MutationRatsSynaptic TransmissionVisual PerceptionLeucine-Rich Repeat Serine-Threonine Protein Kinase-2LRRK2 protein, rat

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PMID38424139
PMCPMC10904730
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