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Cureus. 2023 Aug 24;15(8):e44051. doi: 10.7759/cureus.44051. eCollection 2023 Aug.
ABSTRACT
For both short-term and long-term treatment of bipolar disorder, lithium is a prototypical mood stabilizer. Lithium’s neuroprotective properties were revealed by cumulative translational research, which opened the door to reforming the chemical as a treatment for neurodegenerative illnesses. The control of homeostatic systems such as oxidative stress, autophagy, apoptosis, mitochondrial function, and inflammation underlies lithium’s neuroprotective characteristics. The fact that lithium inhibits the enzymes inositol monophosphatase (IMPase) and glycogen synthase kinase (GSK)-3 may be the cause of the various intracellular reactions. In this article, we review lithium’s neurobiological properties, as demonstrated by its neurotrophic and neuroprotective capabilities, as well as translational studies in cells in culture and in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), Huntington’s disease (HD), Prion disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), ischemic stroke, and neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL), discussing the justification for the drug’s use in the treatment of these neurodegenerative disorders.
PMID:37746513 | PMC:PMC10517711 | DOI:10.7759/cureus.44051
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