1. Plasmalogen Augmentation Reverses Striatal Dopamine Loss in MPTP Mice
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Thérèse Di Paolo, Vijitha Senanayake, Asuka Mochizuki, Dushmanthi Jayasinghe, Li Wang, Edith Miville-Godbout, Dayan B. Goodenowe, Mélanie Bourque, Tara C. Smith, Sara Al-Sweidi, and Marc Morissette
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins ,Dopamine ,lcsh:Medicine ,Vesicular monoamine transporter 2 ,Toxicology ,Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ,Biochemistry ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Mice ,0302 clinical medicine ,Catecholamines ,Metabolites ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Amines ,lcsh:Science ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Multidisciplinary ,Movement Disorders ,biology ,Organic Compounds ,MPTP ,Brain ,Parkinson Disease ,Neurochemistry ,Neurodegenerative Diseases ,Neurotransmitters ,Animal Models ,Substantia Nigra ,Chemistry ,Neurology ,1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine ,Physical Sciences ,Anatomy ,medicine.drug ,Research Article ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Biogenic Amines ,Serotonin ,Plasmalogen ,Docosahexaenoic Acids ,Plasmalogens ,Substantia nigra ,Mouse Models ,Research and Analysis Methods ,03 medical and health sciences ,Model Organisms ,Internal medicine ,Biogenic amine ,medicine ,Animals ,Toxicity ,Organic Chemistry ,lcsh:R ,Chemical Compounds ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Corpus Striatum ,Hormones ,Mice, Inbred C57BL ,Neostriatum ,Disease Models, Animal ,030104 developmental biology ,Endocrinology ,Metabolism ,chemistry ,nervous system ,Vesicular Monoamine Transport Proteins ,biology.protein ,lcsh:Q ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Neuroscience - Abstract
Plasmalogens are a class of glycerophospholipids shown to play critical roles in membrane structure and function. Decreased plasmalogens are reported in the brain and blood of Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. The present study investigated the hypothesis that augmenting plasmalogens could protect striatal dopamine neurons that degenerate in response to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) treatment in mice, a PD model. First, in a pre-treatment experiment male mice were treated for 10 days with the docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)-plasmalogen precursor PPI-1011 (10, 50 and 200 mg/kg). On day 5 mice received MPTP and were killed on day 11. Next, in a post-treatment study, male mice were treated with MPTP and then received daily for 5 days PPI-1011 (5, 10 and 50 mg/kg). MPTP treatment reduced serum plasmalogen levels, striatal contents of dopamine (DA) and its metabolites, serotonin, DA transporter (DAT) and vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2). Pre-treatment with PPI-1011 (10 and 50 mg/kg) prevented all MPTP-induced effects. Positive correlations were measured between striatal DA contents and serum plasmalogen levels as well as striatal DAT and VMAT2 specific binding. Post-treatment with PPI-1011 prevented all MPTP-induced effects at 50 mg/kg but not at lower doses. Positive correlations were measured between striatal DA contents and serum plasmalogen levels as well as striatal DAT and VMAT2 specific binding in the post-treatment experiment. PPI-1011 treatment (10 days at 5, 10 and 50 mg/kg) of intact mice left unchanged striatal biogenic amine contents. These data demonstrate that treatment with a plasmalogen precursor is capable of protecting striatal dopamine markers in an animal model of PD.
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- 2016