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Apart from neuroinflammation, 6-OHDA-treated rats also show decreased circulating T reg cells, indicating that this model can reflect aspects of human PD (174)

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Activation, mtDNA, particularly in its oxidized form (ox-mtDNA), can also directly activate the NLRP3 inflammasome, promoting caspase-1 activation, maturation of IL-1 and IL-18, and GSDMD (Gasdermin D)-mediated pyroptosis, thereby fueling chronic inflammation (29, 77, 78)

They discovered that depleting the iSPNs of TrkB signalling leads to increased striatal dopamine due to an increase in the number of dopaminergic cells in the midbrain dopaminergic areas switching from a low dopamine-producing state to a high dopamine-producing state, resulting in striatal neuron vulnerability and motor dysfunction