Toshiharu Nagatsu   Akira Nakashima   Hirohisa Watanabe   Shosuke Ito   Kazumasa Wakamatsu   Fabio A. Zucca   Luigi Zecca   Moussa Youdim   Maximilian Wulf   Peter Riederer   Johannes M. Dijkstra   
Journal of Neural Transmission 2023年3月
Abstract
The dark pigment neuromelanin (NM) is abundant in cell bodies of dopamine (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra (SN) and norepinephrine (NE) neurons in the locus coeruleus (LC) in the human brain. During the progression of Parkinson’s dis...
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Neopterin (NP), biopterin (BP) and monapterin (MP) exist in saliva. The physiological role of salivary NP as well as the pathophysiological role of increased NP in the immune-activated state has been unclear. Saliva is a c...
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 2020年8月 [査読有り]
5'-Nucleotidase domain-containing protein 2 (NT5DC2) has been revealed by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) as a gene implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders related to the abnormality of dopamine (DA) activity in the brain. Based on its ami...
Nakashima A   Yamaguchi H   Kodani Y   Kaneko YS   Kawata M   Nagasaki H   Nagatsu T   Ota A   
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 516(4) 1060-1065 2019年7月 [査読有り]
JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION 123(11) 1255-1278 2016年11月
Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), which was discovered at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1964, is a tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4)-requiring monooxygenase that catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step in the biosynthesis of catecholamines (CAs),...
Y. S. Kaneko   A. Nakashima   K. Mori   H. Nagasaki   Y. Kodani   I. Nagatsu   T. Nagatsu   A. Ota