Allelic difference in Mhc2ta confers altered microglial activation and susceptibility to α-synuclein-induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration

Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a complex and heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta and pathological intracellular accumulation of alpha-synuclein (α-syn). In the vast majority of PD patients, the di...

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Main Authors: Itzia Jimenez-Ferrer, Michael Jewett, Ashmita Tontanahal, Marina Romero-Ramos, Maria Swanberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-10-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996117301687