Misfolded proteinase K-resistant hyperphosphorylated alpha-synuclein in aged transgenic mice with locomotor deterioration and in human alpha-synucleinopathies.

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Published in J Clin Invest on November 01, 2002

Authors

Manuela Neumann1, Philipp J Kahle, Benoit I Giasson, Laurence Ozmen, Edilio Borroni, Will Spooren, Veronika Müller, Sabine Odoy, Hideo Fujiwara, Masato Hasegawa, Takeshi Iwatsubo, John Q Trojanowski, Hans A Kretzschmar, Christian Haass

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1: Department of Neuropathology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

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