Article
Disruption of protein quality control in Parkinson's disease.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 May 2012
Cook Casey, Stetler Caroline, Petrucelli Leonard
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD), like a number of neurodegenerative diseases associated with aging, is characterized by the abnormal accumulation of protein in a specific subset of neurons. Although researchers have recently elucidated the genetic causes of PD, much remains unknown about what causes increased protein deposition in the disease. Given that increased protein aggregation may result not only from an increase...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Aging
- Animals
- Autophagy
- Environmental Pollutants
- Humans
- Lysosomes
- Mice
- Mutation
- Oxidative Stress
- Parkinson Disease
- Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex
