For this, we determined whether pharmacological increase of NEAT1 levels worsened the detrimental effect of MPP + in the SH-SY5Y cell model, and whether the levels of the short and long isoform of the lncRNA changed differently upon short and extended MPTP treatment in an MPTP-induced mouse model of PD. Our findings suggest differential expression of NEAT1/Neat1 isoforms in MPP + /MPTP-induced PD models, which is in accord with the proposed role of the lncRNA in the general stress response. The gene discussed is NEAT1; the disease is Parkinson disease.