Strategic Timing of Glial HMOX1 Expression Results in Either Schizophrenia-Like or Parkinsonian Behavior in Mice

Aims: In this original research communication, we assess the impact of shifting the window of glial HMOX1 overexpression in mice from early-to-midlife to mid-to-late life, resulting in two disparate conditions modeling schizophrenia (SCZ) and Parkinson's disease (PD). Mesolimbic hyperdopaminergia is a widely accepted feature of SCZ, while nigrostriatal hypodopaminergia is the sine qua non of idiopathic PD. Although the advent of parkinsonian features in SCZ patients after treatment with antidopaminergic agents is intuitive, subtle features of parkinsonism commonly observed in young, drug-naïve schizophrenics are not. Similarly, emergent psychosis in PD subjects receiving levodopa replacement is not unusual, whereas spontaneous hallucinosis in nonmedicated persons with idiopathic PD is enigmatic. Investigations using GFAP.HMOX1 mice may shed light on these clinical paradoxes. Results: Astroglial heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) overexpression in mice throughout embryogenesis until 6 or 12 months of age resulted in hyperdopaminergia, hyperkinesia/stereotypy ameliorated with clozapine, deficient prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response, reduced preference for social novelty, impaired nest building, and cognitive dysfunction reminiscent of SCZ. On the contrary, astroglial HO-1 overexpression between 8.5 and 19 months of age yielded a PD-like behavioral phenotype with hypodopaminergia, altered gait, locomotor incoordination, and reduced olfaction. Innovation: We conjecture that region-specific disparities in the susceptibility of dopaminergic and other circuitry to the trophic and degenerative influences of glial HMOX1 induction may permit the concomitant expression of mixed SCZ and PD traits within affected individuals. Conclusion: Elucidation of these converging mechanisms may (i) help better understand disease pathogenesis and (ii) identify HO-1 as a potential therapeutic target in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

Antioxidants & redox signaling - 32(2020), 17 vom: 10. Juni, Seite 1259-1272

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tavitian, Ayda [VerfasserIn]
Cressatti, Marisa [VerfasserIn]
Song, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Turk, Ariana Z [VerfasserIn]
Galindez, Carmela [VerfasserIn]
Smart, Adam [VerfasserIn]
Liberman, Adrienne [VerfasserIn]
Schipper, Hyman M [VerfasserIn]

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Astrocyte
Behavior
Dopamine
EC 1.14.14.18
HMOX1 protein, human
Heme Oxygenase-1
Heme oxygenase-1
Journal Article
Parkinson's disease
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Schizophrenia

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Date Completed 16.07.2021

Date Revised 16.07.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1089/ars.2019.7937

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM304483664