Maltese M, Martella G, Madeo G, Fagiolo I, Tassone A, Ponterio G, Sciamanna G, Burbaud P, Conn PJ, Bonsi P, Pisani A. - January 18, 2016
Broad-spectrum muscarinic receptor antagonists have represented the first available treatment for different movement disorders such as dystonia. However, the specificity of these drugs and their mechanism of action is not entirely clear. We performed a systematic analysis of the effects of anticholinergic drugs on short- and long-term plasticity recorded from striatal medium spiny neurons from DYT1 dystonia knock-in (Tor1a(+/Δgag) ) mice heterozygous for ΔE-torsinA and their controls (Tor1a(+/+) mice).