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Analysis of neural subtypes reveals selective mitochondrial dysfunction in dopaminergic neurons from parkin mutants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Jun 2012
Burman Jonathon L, Yu Selina, Poole Angela C, Decal Richard B, Pallanck Leo
Abstract excerpt
Studies of the familial Parkinson disease-related proteins PINK1 and Parkin have demonstrated that these factors promote the fragmentation and turnover of mitochondria following treatment of cultured cells with mitochondrial depolarizing agents. Whether PINK1 or Parkin influence mitochondrial quality control under normal physiological conditions in dopaminergic neurons, a principal cell type that degenerates in...
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