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Oxidative stress and dopamine deficiency in a genetic mouse model of Lesch-Nyhan disease.
Brain research. Developmental brain research - 28 Feb 2002
Visser Jasper E, Smith Doug W, Moy Sheryl S, Breese George R, Friedmann Theodore, Rothstein Jeffrey D, Jinnah H A
Abstract excerpt
Lesch-Nyhan disease, a neurogenetic disorder caused by congenital deficiency of the purine salvage enzyme hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyl transferase, is associated with a prominent loss of striatal dopamine. The current studies address the hypothesis that oxidant stress causes damage or dysfunction of nigrostriatal dopamine neurons in a knockout mouse model of the disease, by assessing several markers of...
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