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Mitochondrial contagion induced by Parkin deficiency in Drosophila hearts and its containment by suppressing mitofusin.
Circulation research - 17 Jan 2014
Bhandari Poonam, Song Moshi, Chen Yun, Burelle Yan, Dorn Gerald W
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RATIONALE: Dysfunctional Parkin-mediated mitophagic culling of senescent or damaged mitochondria is a major pathological process underlying Parkinson disease and a potential genetic mechanism of cardiomyopathy. Despite epidemiological associations between Parkinson disease and heart failure, the role of Parkin and mitophagic quality control in maintaining normal cardiac homeostasis is poorly understood....
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