Article
Neuromelanin in Parkinson’s Disease: Tyrosine Hydroxylase and Tyrosinase
2022-03-21
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an aging-related and the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s disease. The main symptoms of PD are movement disorders accompanied with deficiency of neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) in the striatum due to cell death of the nigro-striatal DA neurons. Two main histopathological hallmarks exist in PD: cytosolic inclusion bodies termed Lewy bodies that ma...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 695abd4d-178c-54d7-a3e7-1ce47fca563d
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202203.0274.v1
