Monoamine oxidase (MAO) is a family of enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of monoamines, using oxygen to cut off their amine groups. Monoamine oxidase is a single molecular enzyme with multiple binding sites. It has low substrate specificity and can oxidatively deamination of multiple amines. In most cell types in the body, they are found to bind to the outer membrane of mitochondria. Because MAO plays an important role in neurotransmitter inactivation, MAO dysfunction is the cause of many mental and neurological diseases. For example, abnormally high or low levels of MAO in the body have been associated with schizophrenia. The activity of monoamine oxidase increases with the increase of people's age, which causes the metabolism of monoamine neurotransmitters in the brain, changes in activity, and decreases in quantity, and induces certain senile neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and depression.
According to reports, toxin-responsive astrocytes activate the cell repair mechanism (or autophagy-mediated degradation pathway) and increase hydrogen peroxide by triggering monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B). MAO-B plays an important role in the reduction of dopamine. Dopamine hinders signal transmission. This study provides a reasonable explanation for why AD is so unpredictable: Once severely reactive astrocytes appear, neurodegeneration cannot be reversed; mildly reactive astrocytes can be restored unless they are subjected to other pathological burdens Therefore, MAO is a potential target for Alzheimer's disease.
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