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The Use of Primary Human Fibroblasts for Monitoring Mitochondrial Phenotypes in the Field of Parkinson's Disease
Published on: October 3, 2012
[Clinical and biochemical heterogeneity of Parkinson's disease]
Kh I Khadzieva1, I V Chernikova1, N P Milyutina2
1Rostov State Medical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
Objective:
To study correlations between oxidative stress (OS) and clinical changes in patients with neurodegenerative Parkinson's and to identify clinical/biochemical subtypes of the disease.
Material And Methods:
One hundred and nine people were studied, including 91 patients with neurodegenerative Parkinson's (72 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD); 10 with multiple system atrophy (MSA); 9 with corticobasal degeneration (CBD), average age 61.1±7.2 years), and 18 clinically healthy people (average age 55.1±9.2). OS indexes were detected for scoring of redox state in peripheral blood of patients with PD and healthy people (control group). Detection of biochemical indexes was performed in erythrocytes and mononuclear fraction and blood. The activity of glutathione reductase (GR), myeloperoxidase (MPO) and content of reduced glutathione (GSH) was estimated.
Results And Conclusions:
OS is a universal mechanism and is observed in many neurodegenerative diseases. However it is possible to identify quite typical changes of redox state with group selection and their correlations with definite subtypes and PD progress, it gives opportunity, in particular, to make the differential diagnosis with atypical Parkinsonism.
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