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Paramita Chakrabarty1, Carolina Ceballos-Diaz, Wen-Lang Lin, Amanda Beccard, Karen Jansen-West, Nikolaus R McFarland, Christopher Janus, Dennis Dickson, Pritam Das, Todd E Golde.
Abstract
We found that CNS-directed expression of interferon-γ (IFN-γ) resulted in basal ganglia calcification, reminiscent of human idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC), and nigrostriatal degeneration. Our results indicate that IFN-γ mediates age-progressive nigrostriatal degeneration in the absence of exogenous stressors. Further study of this model may provide insight into selective nigrostriatal degeneration in human IBGC and other Parkinson syndromes.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21572432 PMCID: PMC3780582 DOI: 10.1038/nn.2829
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Neurosci ISSN: 1097-6256 Impact factor: 24.884