{"title":"Can physical exercise and its mimetics enhance mitochondrial transfusion for Parkinson’s disease therapy?","authors":"Bogdan-Alexandru Hagiu","doi":"10.1016/j.mehy.2025.111697","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The medical hypothesis that preconditioning Parkinson’s patients with aerobic exercise increases the efficiency of mc-mitochondria transfusion is supported by the fact that dopaminergic neurons become more capable of capturing and integrating these mitochondria. In continuation of the hypothesis, it is proposed that mesenchymal stem cells that produce mc-mitochondria be subjected to intermittent hypoxia in order to reduce the amount of oxygen free radicals that the mitochondria intended for therapy will produce. Transfusion of mc-mitochondria could also treat familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or neurological diseases where axonal regeneration or synaptogenesis is useful.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18425,"journal":{"name":"Medical hypotheses","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 111697"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medical hypotheses","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987725001367","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The medical hypothesis that preconditioning Parkinson’s patients with aerobic exercise increases the efficiency of mc-mitochondria transfusion is supported by the fact that dopaminergic neurons become more capable of capturing and integrating these mitochondria. In continuation of the hypothesis, it is proposed that mesenchymal stem cells that produce mc-mitochondria be subjected to intermittent hypoxia in order to reduce the amount of oxygen free radicals that the mitochondria intended for therapy will produce. Transfusion of mc-mitochondria could also treat familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or neurological diseases where axonal regeneration or synaptogenesis is useful.
期刊介绍:
Medical Hypotheses is a forum for ideas in medicine and related biomedical sciences. It will publish interesting and important theoretical papers that foster the diversity and debate upon which the scientific process thrives. The Aims and Scope of Medical Hypotheses are no different now from what was proposed by the founder of the journal, the late Dr David Horrobin. In his introduction to the first issue of the Journal, he asks ''what sorts of papers will be published in Medical Hypotheses? and goes on to answer ''Medical Hypotheses will publish papers which describe theories, ideas which have a great deal of observational support and some hypotheses where experimental support is yet fragmentary''. (Horrobin DF, 1975 Ideas in Biomedical Science: Reasons for the foundation of Medical Hypotheses. Medical Hypotheses Volume 1, Issue 1, January-February 1975, Pages 1-2.). Medical Hypotheses was therefore launched, and still exists today, to give novel, radical new ideas and speculations in medicine open-minded consideration, opening the field to radical hypotheses which would be rejected by most conventional journals. Papers in Medical Hypotheses take a standard scientific form in terms of style, structure and referencing. The journal therefore constitutes a bridge between cutting-edge theory and the mainstream of medical and scientific communication, which ideas must eventually enter if they are to be critiqued and tested against observations.