Striatal proteomic analysis suggests that first L-dopa dose equates to chronic exposure.
PLoS ONE. 2008-02-13; 3(2): e1589
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001589
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1. PLoS One. 2008 Feb 13;3(2):e1589. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001589.
Striatal proteomic analysis suggests that first L-dopa dose equates to chronic
exposure.
Scholz B(1), Svensson M, Alm H, Sköld K, Fälth M, Kultima K, Guigoni C,
Doudnikoff E, Li Q, Crossman AR, Bezard E, Andrén PE.
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(1)Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala Biomedicinska Centrum (BMC),
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
L-3,4-dihydroxypheylalanine (L-dopa)-induced dyskinesia represent a debilitating
complication of therapy for Parkinson’s disease (PD) that result from a
progressive sensitization through repeated L-dopa exposures. The MPTP macaque
model was used to study the proteome in dopamine-depleted striatum with and
without subsequent acute and chronic L-dopa treatment using two-dimensional
difference in-gel electrophoresis (2D-DIGE) and mass spectrometry. The present
data suggest that the dopamine-depleted striatum is so sensitive to de novo
L-dopa treatment that the first ever administration alone would be able (i) to
induce rapid post-translational modification-based proteomic changes that are
specific to this first exposure and (ii), possibly, lead to irreversible protein
level changes that would be not further modified by chronic L-dopa treatment. The
apparent equivalence between first and chronic L-dopa administration suggests
that priming would be the direct consequence of dopamine loss, the first L-dopa
administrations only exacerbating the sensitization process but not inducing it.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001589
PMCID: PMC2217596
PMID: 18270577 [Indexed for MEDLINE]