α-Synuclein and mitochondrial bioenergetics regulate tetrahydrobiopterin levels in a human dopaminergic model of Parkinson disease.

Parkinson disease (PD) is a multifactorial disease resulting in preferential death of the dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. Studies of PD-linked genes and toxin-induced models of PD have implicated mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and the misfolding and aggregation of α-synuc...

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Main Authors: Ryan, B, Lourenço-Venda, L, Crabtree, M, Hale, A, Channon, K, Wade-Martins, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014