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Neuroinflammation in Parkinson's patients and MPTP-treated mice is not restricted to the nigrostriatal system : microgliosis and differential expression of interleukin-1 receptors in the olfactory bulb
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Abstract
Neuroinflammation may play a role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). The present study questioned whether this neuroinflammatory response differs between the olfactory bulb, as an early affected region and the nigrostriatal system. Indeed, increased microgliosis was shown in post-mortem olfactory bulb of PD patients. Also in olfactory bulb of MPTP-treated mice, microgliosis and increased expression of IL-1 alpha, IL-1 beta and IL-1ra mRNA was observed early after treatment. These observations implicate that neuroinflammation is not restricted to the nigrostriatal system. MPTP-induced microgliosis in striatum and olfactory bulb was reduced in IL-1 alpha/beta knockout mice, indicating that IL-1 affects microglia activation. Importantly, MPTP induced differential regulation of IL-1 receptors. mRNA levels of IL-IRI and, to a lesser extent, IL-IRII were increased in striatum. Interestingly, in the olfactory bulb only IL-IRII mRNA was enhanced. We suggest that differential regulation of IL-1 signaling can serve as an important mechanism to modulate neuroinflammatory activity after MPTP treatment and possibly during PD. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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English
Source (journal)
Experimental gerontology. - Oxford
Publication
Oxford : 2007
ISSN
0531-5565
DOI
10.1016/J.EXGER.2007.04.010
Volume/pages
42 :8 (2007) , p. 762-771
ISI
000248904300008
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