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COVID-19 and Parkinson’s Disease: Possible Links in Pathology and Therapeutics

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The outbreak of SARs-CoV-2 with emerging new variants is leading to global health crisis and has brought a major concern for patients with comorbidities. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a motor neurodegenerative disease involving various metabolic and psychological ailments along with the common occurrence of hyposmia as observed in COVID-19 patients. In addition, the observed surplus inflammatory responses in both diseases are also alarming. Alongside, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor, essentially required by SARS-CoV-2 to enter the cell and dopamine decarboxylase (DDC), required for dopamine synthesis is known to co-regulate in the non-neuronal cells. Taken together, these conditions suggested the probable reciprocal pathological relation between COVID-19 and PD and also suggested that during comorbidities, the disease diagnosis and therapeutics are critical and may engender severe health complications. In this review, we discuss various events and mechanisms which may have implications for the exacerbation of PD conditions and must be taken into account during the treatment of patients.

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The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. We would like to acknowledge the Indian Council of Medical Research for financial support (2016–0264/CMB/ADHOC-BMS).

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Shubhangini Tiwari contributed in preparation of the draft manuscript. Neelam Yadav edited the manuscript. Sarika Singh conceptualized, reviewed, and edited the manuscript.

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Tiwari, S., Yadav, N. & Singh, S. COVID-19 and Parkinson’s Disease: Possible Links in Pathology and Therapeutics. Neurotox Res 40, 1586–1596 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12640-022-00540-4

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