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Chemogenetic Control of Striatal Astrocytes Improves Parkinsonian Motor Deficits in Mice.

Wesley R Evans, Sindhuja S Baskar, Angelica Vellore, Ana Raquel Castro E Costa, Cynthia Jacob, Sanya Ravoori, Abimbola Arigbe, Rafiq Huda

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Article in Glia, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Striatal cholinergic and dopaminergic driven astrocyte CabioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  4. Astrocytes as Therapeutic Targets in Neurodegenerative Disorders.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Wesley R EvansWM Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
Sindhuja S BaskarWM Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
Angelica VelloreWM Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
Ana Raquel Castro E CostaWM Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
Cynthia JacobWM Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
Sanya RavooriWM Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
Abimbola ArigbeWM Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.
Rafiq HudaWM Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6814-9966

Funding

IRACDA at Rutgers: INSPIRE Postdoctoral Training ProgramK12GM093854 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI Detlev Boison, Gary A. Brewer · 2010 to 2026
$14.7M
Molecular Neuroscience of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research TrainingT32AA028254 · NIAAA · RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIV OF N.J. · PI ASTON-JONES, GARY S., SARKAR, DIPAK KUMAR · 2019 to 2023
$1.3M
Prefrontal circuits for attention and motor planningR00MH112855 · NIMH · RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIV OF N.J. · PI HUDA, RAFIQ · 2020 to 2022
$742k
American Parkinson Disease AssociationBrain Research FoundationNIAAA NIH HHS T32 AA028254NIAAA NIH HHS T32AA028254NIGMS NIH HHS K12 GM093854NIGMS NIH HHS K12GM093854NIMH NIH HHS R00 MH112855NIMH NIH HHS R00MH112855Parkinson's Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the degeneration of dopaminergic nigrostriatal inputs, which causes striatal network dysfunction and leads to pronounced motor deficits. Recent evidence highlights astrocytes as a potential local source for striatal neuromodulation. There is substantial evidence for norepinephrine-mediated recruitment of cortical astrocyte activity during movement and locomotion. However, it is unclear how astrocytes in the striatum, a region devoid of norepinephrine neuromodulatory inputs, respond during locomotion. Moreover, it remains unknown how dopamine loss affects striatal astrocyte activity and whether astrocyte activity regulates behavioral deficits in PD. We addressed these questions by performing astrocyte-specific calcium recordings and manipulations using in vivo fiber photometry and chemogenetics. We find that locomotion elicits astrocyte calcium activity over a slower timescale than neurons. Acute pharmacological blockade of dopamine receptors only moderately reduced locomotion-related astrocyte activity. Yet, unilateral dopamine depletion significantly attenuated astrocyte calcium responses. Chemogenetic stimulation of G

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AstrocytesCorpus StriatumParkinsonian DisordersAnimalsChemogeneticsDisease Models, AnimalDopamineLocomotionMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicOxidopamineDopamineOxidopamineastrocyteschemogeneticsdopaminefiber photometrymotorParkinson's diseasestriatum

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PMID39902809
PMCPMC12012328

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