Published in Mental Health Business Week, May 7th, 2005
"Aggregation of the nerve cell protein alpha-synuclein is a characteristic of the common neurodegenerative alpha-synucleinopathies like Parkinson disease and Lewy body dementia, and it plays a direct pathogenic role as demonstrated by early onset diseases caused by missense mutations and multiplication of the alpha-synuclein gene," wrote E. Lindersson and colleagues, Aarhus University.
"We investigated the existence of alpha-synuclein pro-aggregatory brain proteins whose dysregulation may...
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