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Although the exact mechanism of nigral cell death in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is not known, increasing evidence suggests the presence of apoptotic cell death in PD. When we applied the TUNEL method to detect DNA fragmentation, four out of seven late onset sporadic patients with PD showed TUNEL-positive neurons. The percentages of those neurons among the remaining melanin containing neurons were 0.6 to 4.8% (average 2.1%). But TUNEL-positive neurons could not be detected in control subjects as well as four patients with young onset (under 40 years of the age) PD. Numbers of nigral toxins such as MPTP, complex I inhibitors, and mitochondrial respiratory inhibitors have been reported to induced apoptotic cell death. These findings suggest that apoptosis is involved in nigral cell cleath in PD at least in part and warrant further studies on apoptosis-related substances in PD.
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Mochizuki, H., Mori, H., Mizuno, Y. (1997). Apoptosis in neurodegenerative disorders. In: Riederer, P., Calne, D.B., Horowski, R., Mizuno, Y., Poewe, W., Youdim, M.B.H. (eds) Advances in Research on Neurodegeneration. Journal of Neural Transmission. Supplementa, vol 50. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6842-4_13
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