Heterozigot Engrailed-1 ve ⁇ -synükleinopati kaybı (En1/SYN): Parkinson hastalığının çift vuruşlu preklinik fare modeli, yapay zeka ile analiz edildi.

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In this study, we develop and validate a new Parkinson's disease (PD) mouse model that can be used to better understand how the disease progresses and to test the effects of new, potentially disease-modifying, PD therapies. Our central hypothesis is that mitochondrial dysfunction intercalates with misfolded α-synuclein (α-syn) accumulation in a vicious cycle, leading to the loss of nigral neurons. Our hypothesis builds on the concept that PD involves multiple molecular insults, including mitochondrial dysfunction and aberrant α-syn handling. We predicted that mitochondrial deficits, due to heterozygous loss of Engrailed-1 (En1+/-), combined with bilateral injections of pathogenic α-syn fibrils (PFFs), will act to generate a highly relevant PD model - the En1/SYN model. Here, En1+/- mice received bilateral intrastriatal stereotaxic injections of either PBS or α-syn fibrils and were analyzed using automated behavioral tests and deep learning-assisted histological analysis at 2, 4, and 6 months post-injection. We observed significant and progressive Lewy body-like inclusion pathology in the amygdala, motor cortex, and cingulate cortex, as well as the loss of tyrosine hydroxylase-positive (TH+) cells in the substantia nigra. The En1/SYN model also exhibited significant motor impairments at 6 months post-injection, which were however not exacerbated as we had expected. Still, this model has a comprehensive number of PD-like phenotypes and is therefore superior when compared to the α-syn PFF or En1+/- models alone.

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