ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2022
Neurotrophins as Therapeutic Agents for Parkinson's Disease; New Chances From Focused Ultrasound?
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- Parkinson's Disease: The Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Molecular Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Therapy.MedComm · 2025Review
- Intrathecal Therapies for Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Review of Current Approaches and the Urgent Need for Advanced Delivery Systems.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Consensus review on strategies to improve delivery across the blood-brain barrier including focused ultrasound.Neuro-oncology · 2024Review
- 1953-2023. Seventy Years of the Nerve Growth Factor: A Potential Novel Treatment in Neurological Diseases?Aging and disease · 2024Review
- Possible role of lncRNAs in amelioration of Parkinson's disease symptoms by transplantation of dopaminergic cells.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2024Article
- Bibliometric and visualized analysis of ultrasound combined with microbubble therapy technology from 2009 to 2023.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
- 18β-glycyrrhetinic acid ameliorates MPTP-induced neurotoxicity in mice through activation of microglial anti-inflammatory phenotype.Psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Biocompatible Macroion/Growth Factor Assemblies for Medical Applications.Biomolecules · 2023Review
- Research and progress of focused ultrasound in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
- Overexpression of Brain- and Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factors Is Neuroprotective in an Animal Model of Acute Hypobaric Hypoxia.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) represents an effective micro-lesioning approach to target pharmaco-resistant tremor, mostly in patients afflicted by essential tremor (ET) and/or Parkinson's disease (PD). So far, experimental protocols are verifying the clinical extension to other facets of the movement disorder galaxy (i.e., internal pallidus for disabling dyskinesias). Aside from those neurosurgical options, one of the most intriguing opportunities of this technique relies on its capability to remedy the impermeability of blood-brain barrier (BBB). Temporary BBB opening through low-intensity focused ultrasound turned out to be safe and feasible in patients with PD, Alzheimer's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. As a mere consequence of the procedures, some groups described even reversible but significant mild cognitive amelioration, up to hippocampal neurogenesis partially associated to the increased of endogenous brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). A further development elevates MRgFUS to the status of therapeutic tool for drug delivery of putative neurorestorative therapies. Since 2012, FUS-assisted intravenous administration of BDNF or neurturin allowed hippocampal or striatal delivery. Experimental studies emphasized synergistic modalities. In a rodent model for Huntington's disease, engineered liposomes can carry glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) plasmid DNA (GDNFp) to form a GDNFp-liposome (GDNFp-LPs) complex through pulsed FUS exposures with microbubbles; in a subacute MPTP-PD model, the combination of intravenous administration of neurotrophic factors (either through protein or gene delivery) plus FUS did curb nigrostriatal degeneration. Here, we explore these arguments, focusing on the current, translational application of neurotrophins in neurodegenerative diseases.
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