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Role of the Transcription Factor Nrf2 in Parkinson’s Disease: New Insights
2017-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a slow progressive neurodegenerative disorder associated with motor and nonmotor symptoms, with no neuroprotective therapies. This chronic disease is characterized by loss of dopaminergic neurons from the sustantia nigra pars compacta and the presence of cytoplasmic α-synuclein-positive inclusions called Lewy bodies in the surviving neurons. Although PD has unknown etiology, familiar fo...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1d50ced0-4f3e-5a24-bc3f-df6fe800d16d
- DOI
- 10.4172/2161-0460.1000340
