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Exacerbated synucleinopathy in mice expressing A53T SNCA on a Snca null background.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Jan 2005
Cabin Deborah E, Gispert-Sanchez Suzana, Murphy Diane, Auburger Georg, Myers Robert R, Nussbaum Robert L
Abstract excerpt
Alpha-Synuclein is a major component of Lewy bodies, neuronal inclusions diagnostic for Parkinson's disease (PD). While an Ala53Thr mutation in alpha-synuclein can cause PD in humans, in mice the wildtype residue at position 53 is threonine, indicating that mice are either too short-lived to develop PD, or are protected by the six other amino acid differences between the proteins in these two species. Mice...
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