Early steps in Parkinson's pathology revealed

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 13:28 in Biology & Nature

Although the cause of Parkinson's disease remains a mystery, scientists now have a better understanding of the earliest stages of abnormal aggregation of a key disease-associated protein. The research provides new insight into the first steps in the formation of neurotoxic structures called Lewy bodies that are the hallmark of the Parkinson's brain.

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