PINK1 is necessary for long term survival and mitochondrial function in human dopaminergic neurons.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common age-related neurodegenerative disease and it is critical to develop models which recapitulate the pathogenic process including the effect of the ageing process. Although the pathogenesis of sporadic PD is unknown, the identification of the mendelian genetic...

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Main Authors: Alison Wood-Kaczmar, Sonia Gandhi, Zhi Yao, Andrey Y Abramov, Erik A Miljan, Gregory Keen, Lee Stanyer, Iain Hargreaves, Kristina Klupsch, Emma Deas, Julian Downward, Louise Mansfield, Parmjit Jat, Joanne Taylor, Simon Heales, Michael R Duchen, David Latchman, Sarah J Tabrizi, Nicholas W Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-06-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2413012?pdf=render