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The α‐Synucleinopathies: Parkinson's Disease, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, and Multiple System Atrophy
1 Dec 2000
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Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, after Alzheimer's disease. Neuropathologically, it is characterized by the degeneration of populations of nerve cells that develop filamentous inclusions in the form of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites. Recent work has shown that the filamentous inclusions of Parkinson's disease are made of the protein alpha-synuclein and that rare, familial...
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