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Comparison of Parkinson’s monkey models induced by unilateral and bilateral intracerebroventricular injections of MPP⁺

LI Jun^1,2, ZHANG Hui-Yun^1,2, JIANG Yong³, LI Tian-Qing^1,2,*

¹Institute of Translational Medicine, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650000, China；²Yunnan Key Laboratory of Primate Biomedical Research, Kunming 650500, China；³Department of Nuclear Medicine, the First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming 650032, China

Abstract

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases, but its pathogenesis is still unclear. Recently a new approach has been used to develop Parkinsonian monkeys with unilateral intracerebroventricular injections of 1-methyl- 4-phenylpyridinium ion (MPP⁺). However, this new method still has some shortcomings, which limits the potential application of MPTP-induced PD monkey models. In the present study, we aimed to develop a modified protocol to induce chronic Parkinsonian non-human primate model with low-dose MPP⁺ by bilateral intracerebroventricular injections. The induced time of PD model, model stability, phenotypes and 99Tcm-TRODAT-1 single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) brain imaging of dopamine transporter were compared between unilateral and bilateral modeling groups. The results showed that PD symptoms in the bilateral modeling group were induced earlier, more serious, and lasted longer after the administration stage, compared with those of the unilateral modeling group. In the unilateral modeling group, radioactive uptake of the striatum was decreased significantly in the left side (MPP+ injected side), but unaffected in the right side. While in the bilateral modeling group, the radioactive uptake of the bilateral striatum was declined dramatically and symmetrically. These results suggest that bilateral intracerebroventricular injection of MPP⁺ is superior to unilateral intracerebroventricular injection in establishing chronic Parkinsonian non-human primate model and may supply a better animal model for PD research.

Key words: Parkinson’s disease; non-human primate animal model ; bilateral intracerebroventricular administration ; unilateral intracerebroventricular administration

Received: 2017-01-31　　Accepted: 2017-11-06

Corresponding author: 李天晴　　E-mail: litq@lpbr.cn

DOI: 10.13294/j.aps.2017.0084

Citing This Article：

LI Jun, ZHANG Hui-Yun, JIANG Yong, LI Tian-Qing. Comparison of Parkinson’s monkey models induced by unilateral and bilateral intracerebroventricular injections of MPP⁺ . Acta Physiol Sin 2017; 69 (6): 743-750 (in Chinese with English abstract).