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Developmental pesticide models of the Parkinson disease phenotype.
Environmental health perspectives - 1 Sept 2005
Cory-Slechta Deborah A, Thiruchelvam Mona, Barlow Brian K, Richfield Eric K
Abstract excerpt
It has been hypothesized that developmental insults could contribute to Parkinson disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder resulting from the loss of the dopamine neurons of the nigrostriatal pathway. Two models of developmental pesticide exposures in mice are presented here that yield PD phenotypes consistent with this possibility. Combined exposures to the herbicide paraquat (PQ) and the fungicide maneb (MB),...
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