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The Centrality of Mitochondria in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
7 Apr 2014
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder leading to progressive motor impairment and for which there is no cure. From the first postmortem account describing a lack of mitochondrial complex I in the substantia nigra of PD sufferers, the direct association between mitochondrial dysfunction and death of dopaminergic neurons has ever since been consistently corroborated. In this review, we...
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