Local Gastrointestinal Injury Exacerbates Inflammation and Dopaminergic Cell Death in Parkinsonian Mice

Neurotoxicity Research
Ana-Luisa Gil-MartínezMaría-Trinidad Herrero

Abstract

The cause of progressive degeneration in Parkinson's disease is not clear, although, in the last years, different studies have suggested that both brain and peripheral inflammation could play a key role in the progression of this disorder. In our study, we aimed to analyze the effect of an acute inflammation confined to the colon on dopaminergic neuronal death and glial response in mice intoxicated with MPTP. The results obtained show a very significant decrease of dopaminergic neurons in the SNpc as well as a significant decrease of dopaminergic fibers in the striatum of the MPTP+DSS-treated group compared with the control animals. In addition, there was a significant exacerbation of microglial and astrocytes activation in MPTP+DSS animals compared with the control group. This data suggests that a specific gastrointestinal injury, which induces a systemic inflammatory response, is able to exacerbate cell death mechanisms of the remaining dopaminergic neurons and then contributes to the persistent progression of the disease. These results leave open new lines of research on the role of exclusive colonic inflammation and the progression of nigrostriatal dopaminergic degeneration.

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Oct 15, 2019·Journal of Parkinson's Disease·Tomasz Brudek
Jan 3, 2021·Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology·Fillipe M de AraújoMaria Trinidad Herrero
Mar 23, 2021·NPJ Parkinson's Disease·Mary K Herrick, Malú G Tansey
Dec 10, 2021·Aging and Disease·Yu LiWeidong Le

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