Age-induced midbrain-striatum assembloids model early phenotypes of Parkinsons disease
Barmpa, K.; Saraiva, C.; Gomez-Giro, G.; Gabassi, E.; Spitz, S.; Rodriguez Gatica, J. E.; Antony, P.; Robertson, G.; Papastefanaki, F.; Kubitscheck, U.; Salti, A.; Ertl, P.; Matsas, R.; Edenhofer, F.; Schwamborn, J. C.
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Parkinsons disease (PD), one of the most common aging-associated neurodegenerative disorders, is characterised by nigrostriatal pathway dysfunction, caused by the gradual loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) of the midbrain and the dopamine depletion in the striatum. State of the art, human in vitro models are enabling the study of the dopaminergic neurons loss, but not the dysregulation of the dopaminergic network in the nigrostriatal pathway. Additionally, these models do not incorporate aging characteristics which potentially contribute to the development of PD. Therefore, it is conceivable that research conducted using these models overlooked numerous processes that contribute to diseases phenotypes. Here we present a nigrostriatal pathway model based on midbrain-striatum assembloids with inducible aging. We show that these assembloids are capable of developing characteristics of the nigrostriatal connectivity, with catecholamine release from the midbrain to striatum and synapse formation between midbrain and striatal neurons. Moreover, Progerin-overexpressing assembloids acquire aging traits that lead to early phenotypes of PD. This new model shall help to reveal the contribution of aging as well as nigrostriatal connectivity to the onset and progression of PD.
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