Nigrostriatal alpha-synucleinopathy induced by viral vector-mediated overexpression of human alpha-synuclein: a new primate model of Parkinson's disease.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on February 24, 2003

Authors

Deniz Kirik1, Lucy E Annett, Corinna Burger, Nicholas Muzyczka, Ronald J Mandel, Anders Björklund

Author Affiliations

1: Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Department of Physiological Sciences, Division of Neurobiology, Lund University, BMC A11, 221 84 Lund, Sweden. deniz.kirik@mphy.lu.se

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