BDNF provides many routes toward STN DBS-mediated disease modification
BDNF provides many routes toward STN DBS-mediated disease modification
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DOI:
10.1002/mds.27535
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发表时间:
2019-01-01
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8.6
通讯作者:
Sortwell, Caryl E.
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作者:
Fischer, D. Luke;Sortwell, Caryl E.
The concept that subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN DBS) may be disease modifying in Parkinson's disease (PD) is controversial. Several clinical trials that enrolled subjects with late-stage PD have come to disparate conclusions on this matter. In contrast, some clinical studies in early- to midstage subjects have suggested a disease-modifying effect. Dopaminergic innervation of the putamen is essentially absent in PD subjects within 4 years after diagnosis, indicating that any neuroprotective therapy, including STN DBS, will require intervention within the immediate postdiagnosis interval. Preclinical prevention and early intervention paradigms support a neuroprotective effect of STN DBS on the nigrostriatal system via increased brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). STN DBS-induced increases in BDNF provide a multitude of mechanisms capable of ameliorating dysfunction and degeneration in the parkinsonian brain. A biomarker for measuring brain-derived neurotrophic factor-trkB signaling, though, is not available for clinical research. If a prospective clinical trial were to examine whether STN DBS is disease modifying, we contend the strongest rationale is not dependent on a preclinical neuroprotective effect per se, but on the myriad potential mechanisms whereby STN DBS-elicited brain-derived neurotrophic factor-trkB signaling could provide disease modification. (c) 2018 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.