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The paths to neurodegeneration in genetic Parkinson's disease.
CNS & neurological disorders drug targets - 1 Jan 2014
Abdel-Salam Omar M E
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder, which results from the loss of specific population of neurons, namely the pigmented dopamine secreting neurons of the substnatia nigra pars compatica (SNPc) of midbrain. The exact cause leading to nigrostriatal cell death is not yet known. In recent years, accumulating evidence from the identified molecular events in familial forms of PD contributed much...
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