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Mutant alpha-synuclein causes age-dependent neuropathology in monkey brain.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 27 May 2015
Yang Weili, Wang Guohao, Wang Chuan-En, Guo Xiangyu, Yin Peng, Gao Jinquan, Tu Zhuchi, Wang Zhengbo, Wu Jing, Hu Xintian, Li Shihua, Li Xiao-Jiang
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease (PD) is an age-dependent neurodegenerative disease that often occurs in those over age 60. Although rodents and small animals have been used widely to model PD and investigate its pathology, their short life span makes it difficult to assess the aging-related pathology that is likely to occur in PD patient brains. Here, we used brain tissues from rhesus monkeys at 2-3, 7-8, and >15 years of...
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