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α‐Synuclein implicated in Parkinson's disease is present in extracellular biological fluids, including human plasma
15 Aug 2003
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) and other related disorders are characterized by the accumulation of fibrillar aggregates of alpha-synuclein protein (alpha-syn) inside brain cells. It is likely that the formation of alpha-syn aggregates plays a seminal role in the pathogenesis of at least some of these diseases, because two different mutations in the gene encoding alpha-syn have been found in inherited forms of PD....
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