Article
Late-onset neurodegenerative diseases--the role of protein insolubility.
Journal of anatomy - 1 May 2000
Johnson W G
Abstract excerpt
Recently, mutations of the alpha-synuclein gene were found to cause dominantly inherited Lewy-body Parkinson's disease (PD) and alpha-synuclein was identified as a major component of the Lewy body. However, the cause of the common form of PD, with a multifactorial rather than autosomal dominant inheritance pattern, remains unknown. Alpha-synuclein precipitates slowly and apparently spontaneously at high...
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