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ZFYVE26/SPASTIZIN: a close link between complicated hereditary spastic paraparesis and autophagy.
Autophagy - 1 Feb 2014
Vantaggiato Chiara, Clementi Emilio, Bassi Maria Teresa
Abstract excerpt
Defective autophagy is associated with neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer, Parkinson and Huntington diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and SCA (spinocerebellar ataxias). Autophagy defects were detected also in SPG49, a complicated form of hereditary spastic paraparesis (cHSP) associated with mutations in the TECPR2 gene, suggesting a role of autophagy also in this heterogeneous group of...
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