Preclinical development of a vaccine against oligomeric alpha-synuclein based on virus-like particles.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive and currently incurable neurological disorder characterised by the loss of midbrain dopaminergic neurons and the accumulation of aggregated alpha-synuclein (a-syn). Oligomeric a-syn is proposed to play a central role in spreading protein aggregation in...

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Main Authors: Marika Doucet, Aadil El-Turabi, Franziska Zabel, Benjamin H M Hunn, Nora Bengoa-Vergniory, Milena Cioroch, Mauricio Ramm, Amy M Smith, Ariane Cruz Gomes, Gustavo Cabral de Miranda, Richard Wade-Martins, Martin F Bachmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181844&type=printable