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Metabolic abnormalities and hypoleptinemia in α-synuclein A53T mutant mice.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 May 2014
Rothman Sarah M, Griffioen Kathleen J, Fishbein Kenneth W, Spencer Richard G, Makrogiannis Sokratis, Cong Wei-Na, Martin Bronwen, Mattson Mark P
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) patients frequently display loss of body fat mass and increased energy expenditure, and several studies have outlined a relationship between these metabolic abnormalities and disease severity, yet energy metabolism is largely unstudied in mouse models of PD. Here we characterize metabolic and physiologic responses to a high calorie diet (HCD) in mice expressing in neurons a mutant form of...
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