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To achieve local, continuous l-DOPA delivery in the striatum by gene replacement as a model for a gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease, the present studies used high titer purified recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV) containing cDNAs encoding human tyrosine hydroxylase (hTH) or human GTP-cyclohydrolase I [GTPCHI, the rate-limiting enzyme for tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) synthesis] or both to infect the 6-OHDA denervated rat striatum. Striatal TH and GTPCHI staining was observed 3 weeks after rAAV transduction, with little detectable perturbation of the tissue. Six months after intrastriatal rAAV transduction, TH staining was present but apparently reduced compared with the 3 week survival time. In a separate group of animals, striatal TH staining was demonstrated 1 year after rAAV transduction. Double staining studies using the neuronal marker NeuN indicated that >90% of rAAV-transduced cells expressing hTH were neurons. Microdialysis experiments indicated that only those lesioned animals that received the mixture of MD–TH and MD–GTPCHI vector displayed BH4 independent in vivol-DOPA production (mean ∼4–7 ng/ml). Rats that received the hTH rAAV vector alone produced measurablel-DOPA (mean ∼1–4 ng/ml) only after receiving exogenous BH4. l-Aromatic amino acid decarboxylase blockade, but not 100 mm KCl-induced depolarization, enhanced l-DOPA overflow, and animals in the non-hTH groups (GTPCHI and alkaline phosphatase) yielded minimal l-DOPA. Although elevated l-DOPA was observed in animals that received mixed hTH and hGTPCHI rAAV vectors, there was no reduction of apomorphine-induced rotational behavior 3 weeks after intrastriatal vector injection. These data demonstrate that purified rAAV, a safe and nonpathogenic viral vector, mediates long-term striatal hTH transgene expression in neurons and can be used to successfully deliverl-DOPA to the striatum.

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Characterization of Intrastriatal Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus-Mediated Gene Transfer of Human Tyrosine Hydroxylase and Human GTP-Cyclohydrolase I in a Rat Model of Parkinson’s Disease