supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81971246 (to TM);Opening Foundation of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neurodegeneration,Nanjing Medical University,No.KF202204 (to LZ and SF)。
Methamphetamine addiction is a brain disorder characterized by persistent drug-seeking behavior, which has been linked with aberrant synaptic plasticity. An increasing body of evidence suggests that aberrant synaptic ...
supported by PON AIM(PON RICERCA E INNOVAZIONE 2014-2020,-AZIONE I.2.D.D.N.407 DEL 27 FEBBRAIO 2018-“ATTRACTION AND INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY”)(to GC);Zardi-Gori Foundation(research grant 2021)(to MS);intramural funds from the University of Cagliari(to NS);Fondazione CON IL SUD and The U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission(to AEP).
Preclinical and clinical studies indicate that psychostimulants,in addition to having abuse potential,may elicit brain dysfunctions and/or neurotoxic effects.Central toxicity induced by psychostimulants may pose serio...
supported by the PRIN 2015(Pr.2015R9ASHT);PON AIM(PON RICERCA E INNOVAZIONE 2014-2020,-AZIONE I.2.D.D.N.407 DEL 27 FEBBRAIO 2018-“ATTRACTION AND INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY”);supported by Autonomous Region of Sardinia(RAS-FSC 2018,Codice intervento:RC_CRP_034;CUP RASSR03071);supported by Fondazione di Sardegna(Progetti Biennali Uni CA,Annualità2017)
Preclinical and clinical studies indicate that synthetic psychoactive substances,in addition to having abuse potential,may elicit toxic effects of varying severity at the peripheral and central levels.Nowadays,toxicit...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81971891(to KX),81571939(to KX),81772134(to KX),81772024(to JY),and 81860781(to FXL);the Key Research and Development Program of Hunan Province of China,No.2018SK2091(to KX);the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province of China,No.2017JJ2339(to JY);the Wu Jie-Ping Medical Foundation of the Minister of Health of China,No.320.6750.14118(to KX)
Methamphetamine is one of the most prevalent drugs abused in the world.Methamphetamine abusers usually present with hyperpyrexia (39℃),hallucination and other psychiatric symptoms.However,the detailed mechanism under...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81373240(to PMQ)and 81671865(to PMQ)
Methamphetamine is an amphetamine-type psychostimulant that can damage dopaminergic neurons and cause characteristic pathological changes similar to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease. However, its...
Tp53, a stress response gene, is involved in diverse cell death pathways and its activation is implicated in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. However, whether the neuronal Tp53 protein plays a direct role in ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81072506
The over-expression of α-synuclein is a major factor in the death of dopaminergic neurons in a methamphetamine-induced model of Parkinson’s disease. In the present study, α-synuclein knockdown rats were created by ...