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Europe PMC team

 | 2 April 2014

 | 4 MINS READ

Can a garbage strike in nerve cells cause Parkinson’s disease?

Europe PMC team

 | 2 April 2014

 | 4 MINS READ

Can a garbage strike in nerve cells cause Parkinson’s disease?

Image design: Serial/Trash New research challenges common beliefs about the origin of the disease and draws attention to the nerve cells’ ability to tidy up. Parkinson’s disease is a devastating neurological disorder where nerve cells in the brain slowly degenerate and die. The disease especially affects a certain type of nerve cell, the dopaminergic nerve […]

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