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Parkin mutations reduce the complexity of neuronal processes in iPSC-derived human neurons.
Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) - 1 Jan 2015
Ren Yong, Jiang Houbo, Hu Zhixing, Fan Kevin, Wang Jun, Janoschka Stephen, Wang Xiaomin, Ge Shaoyu, Feng Jian
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the degeneration of nigral dopaminergic (DA) neurons and non-DA neurons in many parts of the brain. Mutations of parkin, an E3 ubiquitin ligase that strongly binds to microtubules, are the most frequent cause of recessively inherited PD. The lack of robust PD phenotype in parkin knockout mice suggests a unique vulnerability of human neurons to parkin mutations. Here,...
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