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12 p, 1.1 MB Pleiotrophin over-expression rescues dopaminergic neurons in parkinsonian rats / Taravini, Irene R. E. (Instituto de Investigaciones Farmacológicas (Buenos Aires, Argentina)) ; Chertoff, Mariela (Fundación Instituto Leloir (Buenos Aires, Argentina)) ; Cafferata, Eduardo G. (Fundación Instituto Leloir (Buenos Aires, Argentina)) ; Courty, José (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (França)) ; Murer, Mario G. (Universidad de Buenos Aires. Departamento de Fisiología y Biofísica) ; Pitossi, Fernando J. (Fundación Instituto Leloir (Buenos Aires, Argentina)) ; Gershanik, Oscar S. (Instituto de Investigaciones Farmacológicas (Buenos Aires, Argentina))
Background: Pleiotrophin is known to promote the survival and differentiation of dopaminergic neurons in vitro and is up-regulated in the substantia nigra of Parkinson's disease patients. To establish whether pleiotrophin has a trophic effect on nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons in vivo, we injected a recombinant adenovirus expressing pleiotrophin in the substantia nigra of 6-hydroxydopamine lesioned rats. [...]
2011 - 10.1186/1750-1326-6-40
Molecular neurodegeneration, Vol. 6, N. 40 (June 2011) , p. 1-12  

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