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HFE Genotype Restricts the Response to Paraquat in a Mouse Model of Neurotoxicity.
Journal of neurochemistry - 1 May 2018
Nixon Anne M, Meadowcroft Mark D, Neely Elizabeth B, Snyder Amanda M, Purnell Carson J, Wright Justin, Lamendella Regina, Nandar Wint, Huang Xuemei, Connor James R
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson's disease is marked clinically by motor dysfunction and pathologically by dopaminergic cell loss in the substantia nigra and iron accumulation in the substantia nigra. The driver underlying iron accumulation remains unknown and could be genetic or environmental. The HFE protein is critical for the regulation of cellular iron uptake. Mutations within this protein are associated with increased iron...
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