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Article Dans Une Revue npj Parkinson's Disease Année : 2023

Premorbid performances determine the deleterious effects of nigrostriatal degeneration and pramipexole on behavioural flexibility

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Subtle cognitive impairment can occur early in the course of Parkinson's disease (PD) and may manifest under different forms of executive dysfunction such as impaired cognitive flexibility. The precise contribution of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurodegeneration to these non-motor features of the disease is poorly known. Whether such cognitive impairment associated with the disease process may also predate and contribute to the development of neuropsychiatric side-effects following dopamine replacement therapy remains largely unknown. To address these issues, we investigated the respective contributions of nigrostriatal degeneration and chronic treatment with the dopamine D3-preferring agonist pramipexole on behavioral flexibility in a rat model of PD. Flexible, intermediate and inflexible rats were identified based on baseline assessment of behavioral flexibility using an operant set-shifting task. Nigrostriatal degeneration was induced by bilateral viral-mediated expression of A53T mutated human α-synuclein in the substantia nigra pars compacta and behavioral flexibility was assessed after induction of nigrostriatal degeneration, and during chronic pramipexole treatment. Nigrostriatal degeneration impaired behavioral flexibility in flexible but not in inflexible rats. Pramipexole induced a decrease of behavioral flexibility that was exacerbated in lesioned rats and in the most flexible individuals. Furthermore, the deficits induced by pramipexole in lesioned rats affected different components of the task between flexible and inflexible individuals. This study demonstrates that nigrostriatal degeneration and pramipexole unequally impair behavioral flexibility, suggesting that the susceptibility to develop non-motor impairments upon treatment initiation could primarily depend on premorbid differences in behavioral flexibility.
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hal-04234612 , version 1 (10-10-2023)

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Mélina Decourt, Eric Balado, Maureen Francheteau, Marcello Solinas, Marianne Benoît-Marand, et al.. Premorbid performances determine the deleterious effects of nigrostriatal degeneration and pramipexole on behavioural flexibility. npj Parkinson's Disease, 2023, 9 (1), pp.31. ⟨10.1038/s41531-023-00475-3⟩. ⟨hal-04234612⟩

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