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Parkinson's disease: from causes to mechanisms
19 Dec 2004
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common age-related, progressive neurodegenerative disease of unknown etiology. Environmental factors have long been suspected to participate in the pathogenesis of PD due to the existence of neurotoxins that preferentially damage the dopaminergic nigrostriatal pathway. In the past few years, novel insights into the degenerative process have been provided by the discovery of genes...
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