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ArticleMolecular brain2020

Reduced complement of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta of mice with a constitutive "low footprint" genetic knockout of alpha-synuclein.

Valeria V Goloborshcheva, Kirill D Chaprov, Ekaterina V Teterina, Ruslan Ovchinnikov, Vladimir L Buchman

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Article in Molecular brain, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Valeria V GoloborshchevaSchool of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX, UK.
Kirill D ChaprovSchool of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX, UK.
Ekaterina V TeterinaInstitute of Physiologically Active Compounds Russian Academy of Sciences (IPAC RAS), 1 Severniy proezd, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, Russian Federation, 142432.
Ruslan OvchinnikovInstitute of Physiologically Active Compounds Russian Academy of Sciences (IPAC RAS), 1 Severniy proezd, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, Russian Federation, 142432.
Vladimir L BuchmanSchool of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX, UK. buchmanvl@cf.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-7631-8352
Institute of Physiologically Active Compounds · RUPirogov Russian National Research Medical University · RU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies of the alpha-synuclein null mutant mice on the C57Bl6 genetic background have revealed reduced number of dopaminergic neurons in their substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). However, the presence in genomes of the studied mouse lines of additional genetic modifications that affect expression of genes located in a close proximity to the alpha-synuclein-encoding Snca gene makes these data open to various interpretations. To unambiguously demonstrate that the absence of alpha-synuclein is the primary cause of the observed deficit of dopaminergic neurons, we employed a recently produced constituent alpha-synuclein knockout mouse line B6(Cg)-Snca

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alpha-SynucleinAnimalsCell SurvivalDopaminergic NeuronsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutPars CompactaSubstantia Nigraalpha-SynucleinSnca protein, mouseAlpha-synucleinDopaminergic neuronsNull mutant miceStriatumSubstantia nigra

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PMID32393371
PMCPMC7216632
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