VISUAL DEFICITS RELATED TO DOPAMINE DEFICIENCY IN EXPERIMENTAL-ANIMALS AND PARKINSONS-DISEASE PATIENTS
VISUAL DEFICITS RELATED TO DOPAMINE DEFICIENCY IN EXPERIMENTAL-ANIMALS AND PARKINSONS-DISEASE PATIENTS
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DOI:
10.1016/0166-2236(90)90113-o
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发表时间:
1990-07-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
BODISWOLLNER, I
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作者:
BODISWOLLNER, I
In patients affected by Parkinson's disease, and in the monkey model of this disease, visual defects have been shown using psychophysical and electrophysiological measures of spatial and temporal contrast sensitivity. These studies imply an essential role for dopamine m primate vision. There is electrophysiological and neurochemical evidence to suggest that at least part of the problem is impaired retinal processing caused by systemic dopaminergic deficiency. Some of the deficits that have been demonstrated, consistent with physiological studies, suggest that center-surround interaction of neurons may suffer as a consequence of dopaminergic deficiency. The role of the regulation of retinal dopamine (DI and De) r~ ceptors in primate vision and of the balance of these receptors in presynaptic dopaminergic defMency is not yet determined. Using sinusoidal grating stimuli in cognitively loaded tasks may increase understanding of the behavioral consequences of visual deficits seen in dopamine deficiency syndromes.Since the original description by James Parkinson in 1817~ it has become accepted that Parkinson's disease (PD) is exclusively a motor system disorder with specific neuropathological changes affecting the basal ganglia, predominantly dopaminergic neurons. So it was surprising when a large number of patients suffering from PD were reported 2 to have abnormal visual evoked potentials (VEPs), suggesting dopaminergic deficiency in the visual pathway, probably the retina. Initially, there was little further support for this idea. Now, there is considerable psychophysical and electrophysiological evidence attesting to visual dysfunction as a result of dopaminergic deficiency in both humans and animals. This review summarizes vision studies of humans with PD. In addition, data on experimentally induced parkinsonism in monkeys is considered in an attempt to link behavioral evidence with data obtained from cellular studies. Some common aspects of retinal and striatonigral dopamine receptor mechanisms are highlighted. Finally, the possible relationship between sensory-visual and cognitive-visual dysfunction in PD is discussed. The first observations concerning the effect of catecholamine depletion on vision were made by Malmfors in 19633. He recorded that reserpinized rats had pronounced sensitivity to light: they turn away from illumination and close their eyes. Yet at the same time, the pupils of these animals were small, as indeed one would expect from using reserpine, which