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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and risk for primary adult-onset cranial-cervical dystonia.
European journal of neurology - 1 Aug 2009
Martino D, Muglia M, Abbruzzese G, Berardelli A, Girlanda P, Liguori M, Livrea P, Quattrone A, Roselli F, Sprovieri T, Valente E M, Defazio G
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Adult-onset dystonia may be related, amongst other factors, to abnormal neuronal plasticity in cortical and subcortical structures. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor is a major modulator of synaptic efficiency and neuronal plasticity. Recent works documented that a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of the BDNF gene, the Val66Met SNP, modulates short-term plastic changes within motor...
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