“…This spurred a line of research implicating dopamine itself as an autotoxin, based on oxidation of dopamine to dopamine-quinone and then a variety of distal oxidation products [ 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 ] ( Figure 1 and Figure 2 ). Some of these are known to be neurotoxic, such as aminochrome [ 47 , 67 , 68 ], Cys-DA [ 66 , 69 ], and isoquinolines [ 70 , 71 ]. These products of spontaneous dopamine oxidation have in common that they are toxic to mitochondria [ 54 ].…”