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Pathophysiology of manganese-associated neurotoxicity.
Neurotoxicology - 1 Aug 2012
Racette Brad A, Aschner Michael, Guilarte Tomas R, Dydak Ulrike, Criswell Susan R, Zheng Wei
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Manganese (Mn) is a well established neurotoxin associated with specific damage to the basal ganglia in humans. The phenotype associated with Mn neurotoxicity was first described in two workers with occupational exposure to Mn oxide (Couper, 1837). Although the description did not use modern clinical terminology, a parkinsonian illness characterized by slowness of movement (bradykinesia), masked facies, and gait...
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