Therapeutic strategies for Parkinson disease: beyond dopaminergic drugs

D Charvin, R Medori, RA Hauser… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Existing therapeutic strategies for managing Parkinson disease (PD), which focus on
addressing the loss of dopamine and dopaminergic function linked with degeneration of …

Advances in Parkinson's disease: 200 years later

NLG Del Rey, A Quiroga-Varela, E Garbayo… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
When James Parkinson described the classical symptoms of the disease he could hardly
foresee the evolution of our understanding over the next two hundred years. Nowadays …

Microglial implication in Parkinson's disease: loss of beneficial physiological roles or gain of inflammatory functions?

C Lecours, M Bordeleau, L Cantin, M Parent… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Microglia, often described as the brain-resident macrophages, play crucial roles in central
nervous system development, maintenance, plasticity, and adaptation to the environment …

Opportunities and limitations of genetically modified nonhuman primate models for neuroscience research

G Feng, FE Jensen, HT Greely… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The recently developed new genome-editing technologies, such as the CRISPR/Cas
system, have opened the door for generating genetically modified nonhuman primate (NHP) …

Chronic MPTP administration regimen in monkeys: a model of dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic cell loss in Parkinson's disease

GJ Masilamoni, Y Smith - Journal of Neural Transmission, 2018 - Springer
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder clinically
characterized by cardinal motor deficits including bradykinesia, tremor, rigidity and postural …

An m G lu4‐P ositive A llosteric M odulator A lleviates P arkinsonism in P rimates

D Charvin, T Di Paolo, E Bezard, L Gregoire… - Movement …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Levodopa remains the gold‐standard treatment for PD. However, it becomes
less effective as the disease progresses and produces debilitating side effects, such as …

Dyskinesia and Parkinson's disease: animal model, drug targets, and agents in preclinical testing

V Cesaroni, F Blandini, S Cerri - Expert Opinion on Therapeutic …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative
disease after Alzheimer's disease. PD patients exhibit a classic spectrum of motor …

Assembly of novel microbial genomes from gut metagenomes of rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)

S Yang, Z Fan, J Li, X Wang, Y Lan, B Yue, M He… - Gut …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Rhesus macaque (RM, Macaca mulatta), as an important model animal, commonly suffers
from chronic diarrheal disease, challenging the breeding of RMs. Gut microbiomes play key …

Genetically engineered animal models of Parkinson's disease: From worm to rodent

LS Breger, MT Fuzzati Armentero - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder characterised by aberrant
accumulation of insoluble proteins, including alpha‐synuclein, and a loss of dopaminergic …

Glia maturation factor and mast cell-dependent expression of inflammatory mediators and proteinase activated receptor-2 in neuroinflammation

D Kempuraj, GP Selvakumar… - Journal of …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the presence of inflammation-mediated
dopaminergic neurodegeneration in the substantia nigra. Inflammatory mediators from …