Adeno-Associated Virus Type 2 Vector-Mediated Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Gene Transfer Induces Neuroprotection and Neuroregeneration in a Ubiquitin-Proteasome System Impairment Animal Model of Parkinson’s Disease

Abstract

These data indicate that AAV2-mediated GDNF gene therapy can protect the nigral DA neurons from the UPS impairment-induced degeneration, which may partly result from the nigral DA neuron regeneration in the brain, and such experimental results may have implications for the treatment of PD.