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Autologous Peripheral Nerve Grafts To The Brain For The Treatment Of Parkinson's Disease, Andrew Welleford Jan 2019

Autologous Peripheral Nerve Grafts To The Brain For The Treatment Of Parkinson's Disease, Andrew Welleford

Theses and Dissertations--Neuroscience

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a disorder of the nervous system that causes problems with movement (motor symptoms) as well as other problems such as mood disorders, cognitive changes, sleep disorders, constipation, pain, and other non-motor symptoms. The severity of PD symptoms worsens over time as the disease progresses, and while there are treatments for the motor and some non-motor symptoms there is no known cure for PD. Thus there is a high demand for therapies to slow the progressive neurodegeneration observed in PD. Two clinical trials at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine (NCT02369003, NCT01833364) are currently underway that …


Allosteric Modulatory Effects Of Sri-20041 And Sri-30827 On Cocaine And Hiv-1 Tat Protein Binding To Human Dopamine Transporter, Wei-Lun Sun, Pamela M. Quizon, Yaxia Yuan, Wei Zhang, Subramaniam Ananthan, Chang-Guo Zhan, Jun Zhu Jun 2017

Allosteric Modulatory Effects Of Sri-20041 And Sri-30827 On Cocaine And Hiv-1 Tat Protein Binding To Human Dopamine Transporter, Wei-Lun Sun, Pamela M. Quizon, Yaxia Yuan, Wei Zhang, Subramaniam Ananthan, Chang-Guo Zhan, Jun Zhu

Molecular Modeling and Biopharmaceutical Center Faculty Publications

Dopamine transporter (DAT) is the target of cocaine and HIV-1 transactivator of transcription (Tat) protein. Identifying allosteric modulatory molecules with potential attenuation of cocaine and Tat binding to DAT are of great scientific and clinical interest. We demonstrated that tyrosine 470 and 88 act as functional recognition residues in human DAT (hDAT) for Tat-induced inhibition of DA transport and transporter conformational transitions. Here we investigated the allosteric modulatory effects of two allosteric ligands, SRI-20041 and SRI-30827 on cocaine binding on wild type (WT) hDAT, Y470 H and Y88 F mutants. Effect of SRI-30827 on Tat-induced inhibition of [3H]WIN35,428 …