The Benefits of Humanized Yeast Models to Study Parkinson’s Disease

Over the past decade, the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has proven to be a useful model system to investigate fundamental questions concerning the pathogenic role of human proteins in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). These so-called humanized yeast models for PD...

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Main Authors: V. Franssens, T. Bynens, J. Van den Brande, K. Vandermeeren, M. Verduyckt, J. Winderickx
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/760629