Macroautophagy abnormality in essential tremor.

Macroautophagy is a cellular mechanism for the clearance of protein aggregates and damaged organelles. Impaired macroautophagy has been observed in neurodegenerative disorders. We investigated the macroautophagy pathway in essential tremor (ET) cases compared to age-matched controls. We analyzed mic...

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Main Authors: Sheng-Han Kuo, Guomei Tang, Karen Ma, Rachel Babij, Etty Cortes, Jean-Paul G Vonsattel, Phyllis L Faust, David Sulzer, Elan D Louis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3531444?pdf=render