Intestinal infection triggers Parkinson’s disease-like symptoms in Pink1−/− mice
Parkinson’s disease is characterized by massive motor impairment which is caused by the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra (SN) in the mesencephalon. Heritable, rare forms (less than 10%) of this pathology are characterized by impaired mitochondrial fuction, which seems to be linked to a mutation in PINK1, a gene encoding for […]