Journal
ENEURO
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0458-21.2022
Keywords
biophysics; Parkinson's disease
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Funding
- Lundbeck Foundation [R230-2016-2326, R347-2020-2250]
- Danish Council for Independent Research
- StemPhys DNRF Center of Excellence [DNRF116]
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Parkinson's disease is caused by the loss of dopaminergic neurons. This study investigates the breakdown of neuronal signaling and proposes a cellular strategy for maintaining normal dopaminergic signaling. The research provides a new conceptual framework for understanding the impaired dopaminergic signaling in Parkinson's disease.
Parkinson's disease (PD) results from a loss of dopaminergic neurons. What triggers the break-down of neuronal signaling, and how this might be compensated, is not understood. The age of onset, progression and symptoms vary between patients, and our understanding of the clinical variability remains incomplete. In this study, we investigate this, by characterizing the dopaminergic landscape in healthy and denervated striatum, using biophysical modeling. Based on currently proposed mechanisms, we model three distinct denervation patterns, and show how this affect the dopaminergic network. Depending on the denervation pattern, we show how local and global differences arise in the activity of striatal neurons. Finally, we use the mathematical formalism to suggest a cellular strategy for maintaining normal dopamine (DA) signaling following neuronal denervation. This strategy is characterized by dual enhancement of both the release and uptake capacity of DA in the remaining neurons. Overall, our results derive a new conceptual framework for the impaired dopaminergic signaling related to PD and offers testable predictions for future research directions.
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