2020
Pioglitazone activates paraoxonase-2 in the brain: A novel neuroprotective mechanism
Blackburn JK, Curry DW, Thomsen AN, Roth RH, Elsworth JD. Pioglitazone activates paraoxonase-2 in the brain: A novel neuroprotective mechanism. Experimental Neurology 2020, 327: 113234. PMID: 32044330, PMCID: PMC7089823, DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2020.113234.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsParaoxonase 2Novel neuroprotective mechanismParaoxonase-2 expressionAnti-diabetic drug pioglitazoneReactive oxygen species productionNeuroprotective strategiesNeuroprotective mechanismsBrain traumaMouse striatumOxygen species productionParkinson's diseaseAlzheimer's diseaseTherapeutic potentialPioglitazoneDiseaseOxidative stressDrug pioglitazoneSpecies productionBrainNeuroprotectionIschemiaStriatumExpressionPathologyTrauma
1998
Upregulation of striatal D2 receptors in the MPTP-treated vervet monkey is reversed by grafts of fetal ventral mesencephalon: an autoradiographic study
Elsworth J, Brittan M, Taylor J, Sladek J, Redmond D, Innis R, Zea-Ponce Y, Roth R. Upregulation of striatal D2 receptors in the MPTP-treated vervet monkey is reversed by grafts of fetal ventral mesencephalon: an autoradiographic study. Brain Research 1998, 795: 55-62. PMID: 9622593, DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(98)00252-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH Keywords1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridineAnimalsAutoradiographyBenzofuransBrain Tissue TransplantationChlorocebus aethiopsCorpus StriatumDisease Models, AnimalDopamine AgentsFetal Tissue TransplantationImage Processing, Computer-AssistedIodine RadioisotopesMesencephalonParkinson Disease, SecondaryRadioligand AssayReceptors, Dopamine D2Up-RegulationConceptsFetal ventral mesencephalonD2 receptor bindingVentral mesencephalonDorsal striatumAutoradiographic studyDopamine uptake site densityPostsynaptic dopamine receptor activationVentral striatumDopamine concentrationsStriatal D2 receptor bindingReceptor bindingD2 receptor upregulationPostsynaptic dopamine transmissionTetrahydropyridine-treated monkeysStriatal D2 receptorsDopamine receptor activationPrevious autoradiographic studiesAfrican green monkeysDonor neuronsIntrastriatal graftingParkinsonian primatesNeural transplantationReceptor upregulationStriatal circuitryMotor function