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Parkin controls dopamine utilization in human midbrain dopaminergic neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.
Nature communications - 7 Feb 2012
Jiang Houbo, Ren Yong, Yuen Eunice Y, Zhong Ping, Ghaedi Mahboobe, Hu Zhixing, Azabdaftari Gissou, Nakaso Kazuhiro, Yan Zhen, Feng Jian
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) is defined by the degeneration of nigral dopaminergic (DA) neurons and can be caused by monogenic mutations of genes such as parkin. The lack of phenotype in parkin knockout mice suggests that human nigral DA neurons have unique vulnerabilities. Here we generate induced pluripotent stem cells from normal subjects and PD patients with parkin mutations. We demonstrate that loss of parkin in...
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