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The role of autophagy-lysosome pathway in neurodegeneration associated with Parkinson's disease.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Aug 2008
Pan Tianhong, Kondo Seiji, Le Weidong, Jankovic Joseph
Abstract excerpt
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) and autophagy-lysosome pathway (ALP) are the two most important mechanisms that normally repair or remove abnormal proteins. Alterations in the function of these systems to degrade misfolded and aggregated proteins are being increasingly recognized as playing a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease. Dysfunction of the...
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