[HTML][HTML] LRRK2 and idiopathic Parkinson's disease

EM Rocha, MT Keeney, R Di Maio… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
The etiology of idiopathic Parkinson's disease (iPD) is multifactorial, and both genetics and
environmental exposures are risk factors. While mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase-2 …

Mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's disease: from mechanistic insights to therapy

XY Gao, T Yang, Y Gu, XH Sun - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative movement
disorders worldwide. Current treatments alleviate symptoms and suppress the progression …

Six action steps to address global disparities in Parkinson disease: a World Health Organization priority

N Schiess, R Cataldi, MS Okun… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The Global Burden of Disease study conducted between 1990 and 2016, based
on a global study of 195 countries and territories, identified Parkinson disease (PD) as the …

Linking environmental risk factors with epigenetic mechanisms in Parkinson's disease

M Tsalenchuk, SM Gentleman, SJ Marzi - npj Parkinson's Disease, 2023 - nature.com
Sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, with a
complex risk structure thought to be influenced by interactions between genetic variants and …

Anionic nanoplastic contaminants promote Parkinson's disease–associated α-synuclein aggregation

Z Liu, A Sokratian, AM Duda, E Xu, C Stanhope… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Recent studies have identified increasing levels of nanoplastic pollution in the environment.
Here, we find that anionic nanoplastic contaminants potently precipitate the formation and …

The heterogeneity of Parkinson's disease

U Wüllner, P Borghammer, C Choe, I Csoti… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - Springer
The heterogeneity of Parkinson's disease (PD), ie the various clinical phenotypes,
pathological findings, genetic predispositions and probably also the various implicated …

Different pieces of the same puzzle: a multifaceted perspective on the complex biological basis of Parkinson's disease

AC Müller-Nedebock, MCJ Dekker, MJ Farrer… - npj Parkinson's …, 2023 - nature.com
The biological basis of the neurodegenerative movement disorder, Parkinson's disease
(PD), is still unclear despite it being 'discovered'over 200 years ago in Western Medicine …

Environmental triggers of Parkinson's disease–Implications of the Braak and dual-hit hypotheses

H Chen, K Wang, F Scheperjans, B Killinger - Neurobiology of disease, 2022 - Elsevier
Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) may take decades to develop, during which many risk or
protective factors may come into play to initiate the pathogenesis or modify its progression to …

PARK7/DJ-1 in microglia: implications in Parkinson's disease and relevance as a therapeutic target

F Lind-Holm Mogensen, A Scafidi, A Poli… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Microglia are the immune effector cells of the brain playing critical roles in immune
surveillance and neuroprotection in healthy conditions, while they can sustain …

Parkinson's disease is predominantly a genetic disease

SY Lim, C Klein - Journal of Parkinson's Disease, 2024 - content.iospress.com
The discovery of a pathogenic variant in the alpha-synuclein (SNCA) gene in the Contursi
kindred in 1997 indisputably confirmed a genetic cause in a subset of Parkinson's disease …