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Neurocirculatory and nigrostriatal abnormalities in Parkinson disease from LRRK2 mutation.
Neurology - 16 Oct 2007
Goldstein D S, Imrich R, Peckham E, Holmes C, Lopez G, Crews C, Hardy J, Singleton A, Hallett M
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BACKGROUND: Patients with Parkinson disease (PD) often have cardiac sympathetic denervation and failure of neurocirculatory regulation by baroreflexes. Familial PD caused by mutation of the gene encoding alpha-synuclein or by alpha-synuclein gene triplication also features cardiac sympathetic denervation and baroreflex failure. METHODS: Here we report results of cardiac sympathetic neuroimaging by...
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