Conserved nicotine-activated neuroprotective pathways involve mitochondrial stress
Summary: Tobacco smoking is a risk factor for several human diseases. Conversely, smoking also reduces the prevalence of Parkinson’s disease, whose hallmark is degeneration of substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons (DNs). We use C. elegans as a model to investigate whether tobacco-derived nicotine ac...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-03-01
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Series: | iScience |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221001085 |