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Influence of Age and Strain on Striatal Dopamine Loss in a Genetic Mouse Model of Lesch‐Nyhan Disease
1 Jan 1999
Abstract excerpt
Lesch-Nyhan disease is a neurogenetic disorder caused by deficiency of the purine salvage enzyme hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT). Affected individuals exhibit a characteristic pattern of neurological and behavioral features attributable in part to dysfunction of basal ganglia dopamine systems. In the current studies, striatal dopamine loss was investigated in five different HPRT-deficient...
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