The advances in medicine, together with lifestyle modifications, led to a rising life expectancy. Unfortunately, however, aging is accompanied by an alarming boost of age-associated chronic pathologies, including neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases. Interestingly, a non-negligible interplay between alterations of glucose homeostasis and brain dysfunction has clearly emerged. In particular, epidemiological studies have pointed out a possible association between Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) and Parkinson's Disease (PD). Insulin resistance, one of the major hallmark for etiology of T2D, has a detrimental influence on PD, negatively affecting PD phenotype, accelerating its progression and worsening cognitive impairment. This review aims to provide an exhaustive analysis of the most recent evidences supporting the key role of insulin resistance in PD pathogenesis. It will focus on the relevance of insulin in the brain, working as pro-survival neurotrophic factor and as a master regulator of neuronal mitochondrial function and oxidative stress. Insulin action as a modulator of dopamine signaling and of alpha-synuclein degradation will be described in details, too. The intriguing idea that shared deregulated pathogenic pathways represent a link between PD and insulin resistance has clinical and therapeutic implications. Thus, ongoing studies about the promising healing potential of common antidiabetic drugs such as metformin, exenatide, DPP IV inhibitors, thiazolidinediones and bromocriptine, will be summarized and the rationale for their use to decelerate neurodegeneration will be critically assessed.

The Relevance of Insulin Action in the Dopaminergic System / Fiory, Francesca; Perruolo, Giuseppe; Cimmino, I.; Cabaro, Serena; Pignalosa, FRANCESCA CHIARA; Miele, C.; Beguinot, F.; Formisano, P.; Oriente, Francesco. - In: FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE. - ISSN 1662-4548. - 13:(2019), p. 868. [10.3389/fnins.2019.00868]

The Relevance of Insulin Action in the Dopaminergic System

FIORY, FRANCESCA;PERRUOLO, GIUSEPPE;Cimmino I.;CABARO, SERENA;PIGNALOSA, FRANCESCA CHIARA;Beguinot F.;Formisano P.;ORIENTE, FRANCESCO
2019

Abstract

The advances in medicine, together with lifestyle modifications, led to a rising life expectancy. Unfortunately, however, aging is accompanied by an alarming boost of age-associated chronic pathologies, including neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases. Interestingly, a non-negligible interplay between alterations of glucose homeostasis and brain dysfunction has clearly emerged. In particular, epidemiological studies have pointed out a possible association between Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) and Parkinson's Disease (PD). Insulin resistance, one of the major hallmark for etiology of T2D, has a detrimental influence on PD, negatively affecting PD phenotype, accelerating its progression and worsening cognitive impairment. This review aims to provide an exhaustive analysis of the most recent evidences supporting the key role of insulin resistance in PD pathogenesis. It will focus on the relevance of insulin in the brain, working as pro-survival neurotrophic factor and as a master regulator of neuronal mitochondrial function and oxidative stress. Insulin action as a modulator of dopamine signaling and of alpha-synuclein degradation will be described in details, too. The intriguing idea that shared deregulated pathogenic pathways represent a link between PD and insulin resistance has clinical and therapeutic implications. Thus, ongoing studies about the promising healing potential of common antidiabetic drugs such as metformin, exenatide, DPP IV inhibitors, thiazolidinediones and bromocriptine, will be summarized and the rationale for their use to decelerate neurodegeneration will be critically assessed.
2019
The Relevance of Insulin Action in the Dopaminergic System / Fiory, Francesca; Perruolo, Giuseppe; Cimmino, I.; Cabaro, Serena; Pignalosa, FRANCESCA CHIARA; Miele, C.; Beguinot, F.; Formisano, P.; Oriente, Francesco. - In: FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE. - ISSN 1662-4548. - 13:(2019), p. 868. [10.3389/fnins.2019.00868]
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