Article
Mitochondrial dysfunction in the limelight of Parkinson's disease pathogenesis.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Jul 2009
Banerjee Rebecca, Starkov Anatoly A, Beal M Flint, Thomas Bobby
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder with unknown etiology. It is marked by widespread neurodegeneration in the brain with profound loss of A9 midbrain dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra pars compacta. Several theories of biochemical abnormalities have been linked to pathogenesis of PD of which mitochondrial dysfunction due to an impairment of mitochondrial complex I...
Topics
- Animals
- Humans
- Mitochondria
- Mutation
- Parkinson Disease
