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Microglial PHOX and Mac-1 are essential to the enhanced dopaminergic neurodegeneration elicited by A30P and A53T mutant alpha-synuclein.
Glia - 15 Aug 2007
Zhang Wei, Dallas Shannon, Zhang Dan, Guo Jian-Ping, Pang Hao, Wilson Belinda, Miller David S, Chen Biao, Zhang Wanqin, McGeer Patrick L, Hong Jau-Shyong, Zhang Jing
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alpha-Synuclein, a gene whose mutations, duplication, and triplication has been linked to autosomal dominant familial Parkinson's disease (fPD), appears to play a central role in the pathogenesis of sporadic PD (sPD) as well. Enhancement of neurodegeneration induced by mutant alpha-synuclein has...
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