For its journey from the brain to the stomach, alpha -
synuclein only used the less abundant efferent vagal projections.
Not exact matches
The latter mechanism seems to
only dispatch alpha -
synuclein whereas the other system can dump several neurodegenerative disease — associated proteins.
«The effects of alpha -
synuclein on mitochondria are like making a perfectly good coal - fueled power plant extremely inefficient, so it not
only fails to make enough electricity, but also creates too much toxic pollution,» said Dr. Greenamyre.
In a screen of nearly 200,000 compounds, Tardiff and collaborators identified one chemical entity that not
only reversed alpha -
synuclein toxicity in yeast cells, but also partially rescued neurons in the model nematode C. elegans and in rat neurons.
Experimental studies and a growing body of evidence has emerged demonstrating that synthetic α
synuclein fibrils (both human and murine) are capable of «seeding» and propagating α
synuclein pathology not
only in α
synuclein transgenic mouse models but importantly in non-transgenic (WT) neuronal cultures and mice (Luk, K.C. et al., 2012a; Luk, K.C. et al., 2012b; Volpicelli - Daley, L.A. et al., 2014).