Publication Date:
1997-04-11
Description:
Dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area regulate movement and affective behavior and degenerate in Parkinson's disease. The orphan nuclear receptor Nurr1 was shown to be expressed in developing dopamine neurons before the appearance of known phenotypic markers for these cells. Mice lacking Nurr1 failed to generate midbrain dopaminergic neurons, were hypoactive, and died soon after birth. Nurr1 expression continued into adulthood, and brains of heterozygous animals, otherwise apparently healthy, contained reduced dopamine levels. These results suggest that putative Nurr1 ligands may be useful for treatment of Parkinson's disease and other disorders of midbrain dopamine circuitry.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zetterstrom, R H -- Solomin, L -- Jansson, L -- Hoffer, B J -- Olson, L -- Perlmann, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Apr 11;276(5310):248-50.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9092472" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid/metabolism
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Animals
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Cell Differentiation
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Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
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Corpus Striatum/metabolism
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*DNA-Binding Proteins
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Dopamine/biosynthesis/*metabolism
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Gene Targeting
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Heterozygote
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Ligands
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Mesencephalon/abnormalities/*cytology/growth & development/metabolism
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Mice
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Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
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Neurons/*cytology/*metabolism
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Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 4, Group A, Member 2
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RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism
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Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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