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Mice with a partial deficiency of manganese superoxide dismutase show increased vulnerability to the mitochondrial toxins malonate, 3-nitropropionic acid, and MPTP.
Experimental neurology - 1 Jan 2001
Andreassen O A, Ferrante R J, Dedeoglu A, Albers D W, Klivenyi P, Carlson E J, Epstein C J, Beal M F
Abstract excerpt
There is substantial evidence implicating mitochondrial dysfunction and free radical generation as major mechanisms of neuronal death in neurodegenerative diseases. The major free radical scavenging enzyme in mitochondria is manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD2). In the present study we investigated the susceptibility of mice with a partial deficiency of SOD2 to the neurotoxins...
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