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MOVEMENT DISORDERS
Volume 30, Issue 11, Pages 1521-1527Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/mds.26332
Keywords
alpha-Synuclein; immunotherapy; oligomer; clearance; GLP-1R
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease and is typically associated with progressive motor dysfunction, although PD patients also exhibit a variety of non-motor symptoms. The neuropathological hallmark of PD is intraneuronal inclusions containing primarily alpha-Synuclein (alpha-Syn), and several lines of evidence point to alpha-Syn as a key contributor to disease progression. Thus, basic research in the field of PD is largely focused on understanding the pathogenic properties of alpha-Syn. Over the past 2 y, these studies helped to identify several novel therapeutic strategies that have the potential to slow PD progression; such strategies include sequestration of extracellular alpha-Syn through immunotherapy, reduction of alpha-Syn multimerization or intracellular toxicity, and attenuation of the neuroinflammatory response. This review describes these and other putative therapeutic strategies, together with the basic science research that led to their identification. The current breadth of novel targets for the treatment of PD warrants cautious optimism in the fight against this devastating disease. (c) 2015 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
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