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Aging and alpha-synuclein affect synaptic plasticity in the dentate gyrus.
Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) - 1 Jan 2009
Gureviciene Irina, Gurevicius Kestutis, Tanila Heikki
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Although intracellular accumulation of alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn) is a characteristic pathological change in Parkinson's disease, Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's disease, the normal function of this presynaptic protein is still unknown. To assess the contribution of alpha-syn to synaptic plas...
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