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Evidence that PD begins with loss of dopamine before Lewy Bodies and cell death

Posted by scwarren on 05 Oct 2013 at 18:43 GMT

Following my last comment Parkinson's UK have just announced (http://www.parkinsons.org...) that mouse studies ave shown that insertion of the human gene for α-synuclein brings about the onset of PD symptoms and dopamine loss in mice before the formation of protein tangles and well before neuron death.

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