Abstract:Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) remains an incurable neurodegenerative disease. The most frequent missense mutations in familial PD occur in the highly conserved LRRK2/PARK8 gene. Both fly and mouse models of PD carrying the LRRK2 transgene with a dominant G2019S mutation exhibit locomotion defects and loss of dopaminergic neurons. Gastrodia elata Blume (GE) is an herbal medicine traditionally used to treat neurological diseases and has been reported to have neuroprotective effects in toxin-induced PD mod… Show more
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