Journal
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 62, Issue -, Pages 186-201Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2013.05.042
Keywords
Parkinson disease; Amphetamines; Oxidative stress; Mitochondrial dysfunction; Dopamine; Free radicals
Funding
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal
- COMPETE-Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade, QREN
- European Union (FEDER-Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional)
- FCT [SFRH/BD/25515/2005, SFRH/BPD/34711/2007]
- POPH-Programa Operacional Potencial Humano, QREN
- European Union
- [PTDC/SAU-NEU/101928/2008]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/25515/2005, PTDC/SAU-NEU/101928/2008, SFRH/BPD/34711/2007] Funding Source: FCT
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Parkinson disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive neurological disease associated with a loss of dopaminergic neurons. In most cases the disease is sporadic but genetically inherited cases also exist. One of the major pathological features of PD is the presence of aggregates that localize in neuronal cytoplasm as Lewy bodies, mainly composed of alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn) and ubiquitin. The selective degeneration of dopaminergic neurons suggests that dopamine itself may contribute to the neurodegenerative process in PD. Furthermore, mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress constitute key pathogenic events of this disorder. Thus, in this review we give an actual perspective to classical pathways involving these two mechanisms of neurodegeneration, including the role of dopamine in sporadic and familial PD, as well as in the case of abuse of amphetamine-type drugs. Mutations in genes related to familial PD causing autosomal dominant or recessive forms may also have crucial effects on mitochondrial morphology, function, and oxidative stress. Environmental factors, such as MPTP and rotenone, have been reported to induce selective degeneration of the nigrostriatal pathways leading to alpha-syn-positive inclusions, possibly by inhibiting mitochondrial complex I of the respiratory chain and subsequently increasing oxidative stress. Recently, increased risk for PD was found in amphetamine users. Amphetamine drugs have effects similar to those of other environmental factors for PD, because long-term exposure to these drugs leads to dopamine depletion. Moreover, amphetamine neurotoxicity involves alpha-syn aggregation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and oxidative stress. Therefore, dopamine and related oxidative stress, as well as mitochondrial dysfunction, seem to be common links between PD and amphetamine neurotoxicity. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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