Journal article

NRF2 Activation Restores Disease Related Metabolic Deficiencies in Olfactory Neurosphere-Derived Cells from Patients with Sporadic Parkinson's Disease

Anthony L Cook, Alejandra M Vitale, Sugandha Ravishankar, Nicholas Matigian, Greg T Sutherland, Jiangou Shan, Ratneswary Sutharsan, Chris Perry, Peter A Silburn, George D Mellick, Murray L Whitelaw, Christine A Wells, Alan Mackay-Sim, Stephen A Wood

PLOS ONE | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2011

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Without appropriate cellular models the etiology of idiopathic Parkinson's disease remains unknown. We recently reported a novel patient-derived cellular model generated from biopsies of the olfactory mucosa (termed olfactory neurosphere-derived (hONS) cells) which express functional and genetic differences in a disease-specific manner. Transcriptomic analysis of Patient and Control hONS cells identified the NRF2 transcription factor signalling pathway as the most differentially expressed in Parkinson's disease. RESULTS: We tested the robustness of our initial findings by including additional cell lines and confirmed that hONS cells from Patients had 20% reductions in reduced glu..

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