作者: Janneth Oleas , Fumiaki Yokoi , Mark P. DeAndrade , Yuqing Li
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-405195-9.00028-7
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摘要: Dystonia is a neurological disorder characterized by sustained muscle contractions that lead to abnormal movements and postures. Genetic rodent models have been generated for DYT1, DYT11, DYT12, DYT25 dystonias. Although these do not display overt dystonic phenotypes, they exhibit motor deficits in behavioral tests are thought represent indirect measurements of dystonia-like phenotype. Moreover, animal led deeper understanding the pathophysiology dystonia. In particular, alterations dopaminergic cholinergic systems basal ganglia. Furthermore, changes synaptic plasticity neurotransmission ganglia elucidated DYT1 dystonia models. addition, accumulating evidence has demonstrated an important role cerebellum Last, translational studies using recently potential novel therapeutic. useful investigate develop effective treatment.