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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 907, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2021.174262
Keywords
Dynamin-related protein 1; Mitochondria; Mitophagy; Dynasore; Parkinsons's disease
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81473376, 81730096, 81773924]
- CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS) [2016-I2M-1-004]
- Drug Innovation Major Project [2018ZX09711001-003-005]
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The inhibition of Drp1 improves motor deficits in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease, without affecting mitochondrial quantity or morphology. It also up-regulates mitochondrial expressions of PINK1 and Parkin.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the prevalent neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the degeneration of the nigrostriatal neurons. Dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1) is a key regulator mediating mitochondrial fission and affecting mitophagy in neurons. It has been reported that the inhibition of Drp1 may be beneficial to PD. However, the role of Drp1 and mitophagy in PD remains elusive. Therefore, in this research, we investigated the role of Drp1 and the underlying mechanisms in the mice model of PD. We used the dynasore, a GTPase inhibitor, to inhibit the expression of Drp1. We found that inhibition of Drp1 could ameliorate the motor deficits and the expression of tyrosine hydroxylase in the mice of the PD model. But Drp1 inhibition did not affect mitochondria number and morphological parameters. Moreover, suppression of Drp1 up-regulated the mitochondrial expressions of PINK1 and Parkin while not affected the expressions of NIX and BNIP3. Conclusively, our findings suggest that the inhibition of Drp1 ameliorated the mitochondrial ultrastructure at least via regulating PINK1 and Parkin in the mice of the PD model. This study also implicates that inhibition of Drp1 might impact mitophagy and recover mitochondrial homeostasis in PD.
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