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What’s to like about the prion-like hypothesis for the spreading of aggregated α-synuclein in Parkinson disease?

α-Synuclein is a key protein in Parkinson disease. Not only is it the major protein component of Lewy bodies, but it is implicated in several cellular processes that are disrupted in Parkinson disease. Misfolded α-synuclein has also been shown to spread from cell-to-cell and, in a prion-like fashion...

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Autores principales: Dunning, Christopher J.R., George, Sonia, Brundin, Patrik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23360753
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/pri.23806