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Pink1/Parkin link inflammation, mitochondrial stress, and neurodegeneration
28 Aug 2018
Abstract excerpt
What causes inflammation in age-related neurodegenerative diseases remains a mystery. Sliter et al. (2018. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0448-9) show that, when damaged mitochondria cannot be removed by mitophagy, stress from exercise or mitochondrial DNA mutations activates the proinflammatory cGAS–STING pathway that may contribute to Parkinson’s disease.
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