1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
NEURODEGENERATION AND NEUROPROTECTION OF MESOSTRIATAL DOPAMINE SYSTEM
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10680707
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Nerve anatomy/Neuropathology
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| Research Institution | Dokkyo University School of Medicine |
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Principal Investigator |
UEDA Shuichi DOKKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, PROFESSOR, 医学部, 教授 (60150570)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAMAOKA Sadao DOKKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, PROFESSOR, 医学部, 教授 (50049813)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 1999
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| Keywords | Dopamine / Parkinson's disease / Superoxide / Oxydant stress / Mutant rat / Degeneration / Serotonin / Striatum |
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| Research Abstract |
To test the oxidant stress hypothesis of dopaminergic degeneration, age-related changes in the mesostriatal dopamine neuron system were compared between zitter mutant rats which have abnormal metabolism of oxygen species in the brain and Sprague-Dawley rat as a control using the neurochemistry and immunohistochemistry. Dopamine content in the caudate-putamen, nucleus accumbens and olfactory tubercle of zitter rats decreased significantly with age, and was lower than that found in corresponding age-matched controls. In the zitter rats, the reduction of dopamine was more prominent in the caudate-putamen than in the nucleus accumbens and olfactory tubercle. A characteristic decline of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive fibers in the caudate-putamen of the zitter rat was also observed. In the dorsolateral caudate-putamen, reduction of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive fibers was observed in the matrix-like area, whereas in the ventromedial caudate-putamen the reduction occurred in the patch-like areas. Degeneration of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive fibers which was characterized by swollen varicosities and clustered fibers was observed in the caudate-putamen and nucleus accumbens and preceded loss of normal tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive fibers in the caudate-putamen. Thus, the depletion of dopamine in the terminal areas is related to axonal degeneration. However, there was no degenerative tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive fibers in the olfactory tubercle at any examined age, but reductions of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive fibers and dopamine contents were noted in the olfactory tubercle after four months-of-age.
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Research Products
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