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Smoking and Parkinson's disease: does nicotine affect alpha-synuclein fibrillation?
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Feb 2009
Hong Dong-Pyo, Fink Anthony L, Uversky Vladimir N
Abstract excerpt
alpha-synuclein is a small presynaptic protein (14,460 D) that is abundantly distributed in the brain. Although, its function is unknown, the aggregated form of alpha-synuclein is a pathological hallmark of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease (PD). Epidemiological st...
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