GAD

Jia Luo1, Michael G Kaplitt, Helen L Fitzsimons

  • 1Functional Genomics and Translational Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 12, 2002
PubMed
まとめ

研究者たちは,神経伝達物質であるGABAを生成するために,体下核 (STN) のニューロンを遺伝子組み換えました. この介入はドーパミンニューロンを保護し,ラットにおけるパーキンソン病 (PD) の運動症状を逆転させ,新たな治療アプローチを示唆した.

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