| Literature DB >> 25456401 |
Maria Eugenia Herva1, Maria Grazia Spillantini2.
Abstract
Parkinson's disease is one of several neurodegenerative diseases associated with a misfolded, aggregated and pathological protein. In Parkinson's disease this protein is alpha-synuclein and its neuronal deposits in the form of Lewy bodies are considered a hallmark of the disease. In this review we describe the clinical and experimental data that have led to think of alpha-synuclein as a prion-like protein and we summarize data from in vitro, cellular and animal models supporting this view.Entities:
Keywords: Alpha-synuclein; Misfolding; Parkinson; Prion; Spreading
Mesh:
Substances:
Year: 2014 PMID: 25456401 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.10.016
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virus Res ISSN: 0168-1702 Impact factor: 3.303