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A new knock-in mouse model of l-DOPA-responsive dystonia.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Oct 2015
Rose Samuel J, Yu Xin Y, Heinzer Ann K, Harrast Porter, Fan Xueliang, Raike Robert S, Thompson Valerie B, Pare Jean-Francois, Weinshenker David, Smith Yoland, Jinnah Hyder A, Hess Ellen J
Abstract excerpt
Abnormal dopamine neurotransmission is associated with many different genetic and acquired dystonic disorders. For instance, mutations in genes critical for the synthesis of dopamine, including GCH1 and TH cause l-DOPA-responsive dystonia. Despite evidence that implicates abnormal dopamine neurotransmission in dystonia, the precise nature of the pre- and postsynaptic defects that result in dystonia are not known....
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