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Review
. 1992 Jun;5(3):295-300.

Pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease

P Riederer  1 , K W Lange
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  • PMID: 1623255
Review

Pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease

P Riederer et al. Curr Opin Neurol Neurosurg. 1992 Jun.

Abstract

The importance of genetic aspects, ageing, environmental factors, head trauma, defective mitochondrial respiration, altered iron metabolism, oxidative stress and glutamatergic overactivity of the basal ganglia in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) are considered in this review.

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