All Comments by June Kinoshita

  1. Mark Smith, 45, Is Struck and Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver
  2. A neurotoxic phosphoform of Elk-1 associates with inclusions from multiple neurodegenerative diseases.
  3. Enhanced striatal dopamine transmission and motor performance with LRRK2 overexpression in mice is eliminated by familial Parkinson's disease mutation G2019S.
  4. Dopamine cell implantation in Parkinson's disease: long-term clinical and (18)F-FDOPA PET outcomes.
  5. Transplantation of embryonic dopamine neurons for severe Parkinson's disease.
  6. Factors affecting the clinical outcome after neural transplantation in Parkinson's disease.
  7. Are amyloid diseases caused by protein aggregates that mimic bacterial pore-forming toxins?
  8. Pre-fibrillar alpha-synuclein variants with impaired beta-structure increase neurotoxicity in Parkinson's disease models.
  9. In vivo amyloid imaging in autopsy-confirmed Parkinson disease with dementia.
  10. Mixed brain pathologies account for most dementia cases in community-dwelling older persons.
  11. Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 Regulates the Progression of Neuropathology Induced by Parkinson’s-Disease-Related Mutant a-synuclein.
  12. Cav1.3 channel voltage dependence, not Ca2+ selectivity, drives pacemaker activity and amplifies bursts in nigral dopamine neurons.
  13. An intrinsic neuronal oscillator underlies dopaminergic neuron bursting.
  14. Cellular mechanisms underlying burst firing in substantia nigra dopamine neurons.