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Dietary rescue of fumble--a Drosophila model for pantothenate-kinase-associated neurodegeneration.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 2005
Yang Y, Wu Z, Kuo Y M, Zhou B
Abstract excerpt
Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome (HSS) is a devastating neurological disease, characterized by iron accumulation in the globus pallidus in the basal ganglia. Most HSS cases are caused by mutations in one of the four human pantothenate kinases (PANK2). This PANK2-caused subgroup of HSS is sometimes referred as PKAN (pantothenate-kinase-associated neurodegeneration). No effective treatment for PKAN or HSS is currently...
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