Abstract
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is neurodegenerative disease, which is accompanied by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in subtantia nigra. Non-motor symptoms, in particular, disorders of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are observed in 20-80% of patients some 15-20 years before clinically diagnosed PD and are not a least important feature of PD pathogenesis. The transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are expressed throughout the GI tract, where they play an important role in taste, thermoregulation, pain, mucosal function and homeostasis, control of interstitial motility etc. The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of TRPV4 and TRPM8 channels in the GI motor function in the colon of rats with PD, incduced by injection of the 12 μg 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA). The studies were performed on the 4th week and the 7th month after PD induction The rats were randomly divided into: I group – the sham-lesioned rats, 4 μl 0.9% NaCl, autopsy 4 weeks after injection (n = 5); II group – the 6-OHDA-PD rats, 4 μl 12 μg of 6-OHDA, autopsy 4 weeks after injection (n = 5); III group – the sham-lesioned rats, 4 μl 0.9% NaCl, autopsy 7 months after injection (n = 4); IV group – the 6-OHDA-PD rats, 4 μl 12 μg of 6-OHDA, autopsy 7 months after injection (n = 5). We evaluated the body weight of rats, GI transit time, the cecum weight index and immunohistochemical identification of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) -positive cells, and TRPV4, TRPM8 expression in rat’s colon. We showed that on the 7th month of the experiment, the GI transit time doubles over time; the cecum weight index of 6-OHDA rats increased by 57%; the number of TH-positive cells in colon rats decreased 2-fold, while TRPM8 ion channels were downregulated in PD rats and TRPV4 ion channels were upregulated in the colon of rats with 6-OHDA-PD. It was concluded that TRPV4 and TRPM8 ion channels may be considered pharmacological targets in the progression of PD pathology.
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