Synaptopathies: synaptic dysfunction in neurological disorders - A review from students to students.
Journal: Journal of neurochemistry
Volume: 138
Issue: 6
Year of Publication: 2017
Affiliated Institutions:
Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Institute of Medical Biochemistry Leopoldo de Meis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Department for Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Laboratory of Amyloidosis and Neurodegeneration, Fundación Instituto Leloir-IIBBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Systems Biology Program, Cellular and Systems Neurobiology, Centre for Genomic Regulation, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America.
Laboratorio de Neurotoxicología, Departamento de Toxicología, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México D.F. , Mexico.
Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Department of Human Anatomy, Cross River University of Technology, Okuku Campus, Cross River, Nigeria.
The Department of Biological Chemistry, The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America.
Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy, - Brunswick Square, London, WCN AX, UK.
Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Department of Biochemistry, Midnapore Medical College, West Bengal University of Health Sciences, West Bengal, India.
Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, Julius-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
Department of Neurosciences Uconn Health Center, Farmington, CT, United States of America.
CNR, Institute of Neuroscience, Milan, Italy.
Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America.
Department for Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany. seidenc@lin-magdeburg.de.
Abstract summary
Synapses are essential components of neurons and allow information to travel coordinately throughout the nervous system to adjust behavior to environmental stimuli and to control body functions, memories, and emotions. Thus, optimal synaptic communication is required for proper brain physiology, and slight perturbations of synapse function can lead to brain disorders. In fact, increasing evidence has demonstrated the relevance of synapse dysfunction as a major determinant of many neurological diseases. This notion has led to the concept of synaptopathies as brain diseases with synapse defects as shared pathogenic features. In this review, which was initiated at the 13th International Society for Neurochemistry Advanced School, we discuss basic concepts of synapse structure and function, and provide a critical view of how aberrant synapse physiology may contribute to neurodevelopmental disorders (autism, Down syndrome, startle disease, and epilepsy) as well as neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer and Parkinson disease). We finally discuss the appropriateness and potential implications of gathering synapse diseases under a single term. Understanding common causes and intrinsic differences in disease-associated synaptic dysfunction could offer novel clues toward synapse-based therapeutic intervention for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. In this Review, which was initiated at the 13th International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN) Advanced School, we discuss basic concepts of synapse structure and function, and provide a critical view of how aberrant synapse physiology may contribute to neurodevelopmental (autism, Down syndrome, startle disease, and epilepsy) as well as neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases), gathered together under the term of synaptopathies. Read the Editorial Highlight for this article on page 783.
Authors & Co-authors:
Lepeta Katarzyna K
Lourenco Mychael V MV
Schweitzer Barbara C BC
Martino Adami Pamela V PV
Banerjee Priyanjalee P
Catuara-Solarz Silvina S
de La Fuente Revenga Mario M
Guillem Alain Marc AM
Haidar Mouna M
Ijomone Omamuyovwi M OM
Nadorp Bettina B
Qi Lin L
Perera Nirma D ND
Refsgaard Louise K LK
Reid Kimberley M KM
Sabbar Mariam M
Sahoo Arghyadip A
Schaefer Natascha N
Sheean Rebecca K RK
Suska Anna A
Verma Rajkumar R
Vicidomini Cinzia C
Wright Dean D
Zhang Xing-Ding XD
Seidenbecher Constanze C
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