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Striatal and nigral pathology in a lentiviral rat model of Machado-Joseph disease

Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is a fatal, dominant neurodegenerative disorder. MJD results from polyglutamine repeat expansion in the MJD-1 gene, conferring a toxic gain of function to the ataxin-3 protein. In this study, we aimed at overexpressing ataxin-3 ...

Oxford University Press2008

Encapsulated cell implants as a novel treatment for Parkinson’s disease

Patrick Aebischer

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive degeneration of the dopaminergic cells of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNPc). Systemic levodopa therapy has proved to be an effective initial treatment for thi ...

Humana Press2001

Internally driven vs. externally cued movement selection: a study on the timing of brain activity

Olaf Blanke, Clotaire Michel

Brain imaging studies in man and single cell recordings in monkey have suggested that medial supplementary motor areas (SMA) and lateral pre-motor areas (PMA) are functionally dissociated concerning their involvement in internally driven and externally cue ...

Elsevier2000

Effects of chronic lithium treatment on dopamine receptors in the rat corpus striatum. II. No effect on denervation or neuroleptic-induced supersensitivity

Pierre Magistretti

The influence of chronic dietary lithium administration was evaluated on dopamine receptor supersensitivity in the rat corpus striatum. Supersensitivity was induced with either unilateral destruction of dopamine-containing fibers in the nigrostriatal pathw ...

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