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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2013-01-01
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Series: | Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/760629 |