Metals and Parkinson's Disease: Mechanisms and Biochemical Processes.

Genetic background accounts for only 5 to 10% of the reported cases of Parkinson's disease (PD), while the remaining cases are of unknown etiology. It is believed that environmental factors may be involved in the causality of a large proportion of PD cases. Several PD genes are activated by xenobiotic exposure, and a link between pesticide exposure and PD has been demonstrated. Many epidemiological studies have shown an association between PD and exposure to metals such as mercury, lead, manganese, copper, iron, aluminum, bismuth, thallium, and zinc. This review explores the biological effects, the pathogenetic processes, genetic susceptibilities to metals as well as examining future strategies for PD treatment, such as chelation therapy.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Current Medicinal Chemistry

• Publication date

  2018-05-30

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2174/0929867325666171129124616PMID 29189118
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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