TABLE 1.
PD patients | References | Thy1-h[A30P]α -syn mice | TgM83 mice |
α-syn in GCL, IPL, and INL | Beach et al., 2014; Ho et al., 2014; Bodis-Wollner et al., 2014a | α-syn in GCL, IPL, and INL | α-syn in ONL and INL |
p-α-syn positive cell bodies and neurites in GCL | Beach et al., 2014; Ortuno-Lizaran et al., 2018a | p-α-syn positive cell bodies and neurites in GCL | p-α-syn labeling in outer and inner retina |
p-Tau (Thr231) in OPL and GCL | |||
Thinning of NFL, GCL, IPL, and INL (OCT) | Shrier et al., 2012; Adam et al., 2013; Spund et al., 2013; Lee et al., 2014; Bodis-Wollner et al., 2014b; Matlach et al., 2018 | Thinning of IPL (OCT) | Thinning of ONL (histology) |
Thickening of PL (OCT) | |||
Decreased TH levels and TH-positive cell density in INL Decreased TH + plexus complexity | Nguyen-Legros, 1988; Harnois and Di Paolo, 1990; Chorostecki et al., 2015; Ortuño-Lizarán et al., 2020 | Preserved TH-positive cell density in INL | Preserved TH levels in INL |
Preserved TH + plexus size in IPL | |||
Decreased melanopsin-positive cell density in GCL and dendritic tree complexity | Ortuno-Lizaran et al., 2018b | Preserved melanopsin-positive cell density in GCL | |
Increased microglial reactivity (Iba-1) | Doorn et al., 2014; Ferreira and Romero-Ramos, 2018 | No microglial reactivity (Iba-1) | Increased microglial reactivity (CD11b, CD68) |
No macroglial reactivity (GFAP) | Mirza et al., 1999 | No macroglial reactivity (GFAP) | Macroglial reactivity (GFAP) |
RGC, bipolar and amacrine cell dysfunction (ERG): | Nightingale et al., 1986; Gottlob et al., 1987; Burguera et al., 1990; Ikeda et al., 1994; Peppe et al., 1992, 1995, 1998; Langheinrich et al., 2000; Sartucci et al., 2006; Garcia-Martin et al., 2014; Nowacka et al., 2015; Kashani et al., 2021 | RGC and amacrine cell dysfunction (ERG): | |
− diminished responses of the photopic b-wave, scotopic oscillatory potentials and P50 component of the pattern ERG reversed by L-DOPA | − supernormal responses of the scotopic oscillatory potentials and pSTR (starting at 4 and 8 months, respectively) | ||
− reversed by L-DOPA | − no overt response to L-DOPA |
Retinal manifestations on the TgM83 mouse model were described in Mammadova et al. (2018). OCT, optical coherence tomography; NFL, nerve fiber layer; GCL, ganglion cell layer; IPL, inner plexiform layer; INL, inner nuclear layer; ONL, outer nuclear layer; OPL, outer plexiform layer; PL, photoreceptor layer; ERG, electroretinography; OPs, oscillatory potentials; pSTR, positive scotopic threshold response; and TH: tyrosine hydroxylase.