Journal
MOVEMENT DISORDERS
Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 200-209Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mds.107
Keywords
calbindin; dopamine neuron; nonhuman primates; Parkinson's disease; alpha-synuclein
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [17021050, 15H05879, 16H01611, 18H04944, 15H05873, 16KT0193, 20220006, 25250003, 26250009]
- Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences from Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development [JP17dm0107146]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20220006, 18H04944, 17021050, 15H05879, 16KT0193, 16H01611, 25250003, 26250009, 15H05873] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Background Parkinson's disease is caused by dopamine deficiency in the striatum, which is a result of loss of dopamine neurons from the substantia nigra pars compacta. There is a consensus that a subpopulation of nigral dopamine neurons that expresses the calcium-binding protein calbindin is selectively invulnerable to parkinsonian insults. The objective of the present study was to test the hypothesis that dopamine neuron degeneration might be prevented by viral vector-mediated gene delivery of calbindin into the dopamine neurons that do not normally contain it. Methods A calbindin-expressing adenoviral vector was injected into the striatum of macaque monkeys to be conveyed to cell bodies of nigral dopamine neurons through retrograde axonal transport, or the calbindin-expressing lentiviral vector was injected into the nigra directly because of its predominant uptake from cell bodies and dendrites. The animals in which calbindin was successfully recruited into nigral dopamine neurons were administered systemically with MPTP. Results In the monkeys that had received unilateral vector injections, parkinsonian motor deficits, such as muscular rigidity and akinesia/bradykinesia, appeared predominantly in the limbs corresponding to the non-calbindin-recruited hemisphere after MPTP administration. Data obtained from tyrosine hydroxylase immunostaining and PET imaging for the dopamine transporter revealed that the nigrostriatal dopamine system was preserved better on the calbindin-recruited side. Conversely, on the non-calbindin-recruited control side, many more dopamine neurons expressed alpha-synuclein. Conclusions The present results indicate that calbindin recruitment into nigral dopamine neurons protects against the onset of parkinsonian insults, thus providing a novel approach to PD prevention. (c) 2018 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
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