Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation is neuroprotective in the A53T α‐synuclein Parkinson's disease rat model
- Thomas Musacchio, Maike Rebenstorff, +4 authors Chi Wang Ip
- Annals of neurology
- 2017
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Progressive Neurodegeneration or Endogenous Compensation in an Animal Model of Parkinson's Disease Produced by Decreasing Doses of Alpha-Synuclein
@inproceedings{Koprich2011ProgressiveNO,
title={Progressive Neurodegeneration or Endogenous Compensation in an Animal Model of Parkinson's Disease Produced by Decreasing Doses of Alpha-Synuclein},
author={James Benjamin Koprich and Tom H. Johnston and Philippe Huot and Maria Gabriela Reyes and Maria Claudia Espinosa and Jonathan Michael Brotchie},
booktitle={PloS one},
year={2011}
}- Published in PloS one 2011
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0017698
The pathological hallmarks of Parkinson's disease (PD) are degeneration of dopamine (DA) neurons of the substantia nigra (SN) and the presence of alpha-synuclein (α-syn)-rich Lewy bodies in DA cells that remain. To model these aspects of the disease, we previously showed that high titer (5.1×10exp12 gp/ml) AAV1/2 driven expression of A53T α-syn in the SN of rats caused nigrostriatal pathology including a loss of DA neurons, but also with toxicity in the GFP control group. In the current study… CONTINUE READING