The hypothesis that early degeneration of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) may be related to nigral degeneration has opened new avenues of basic research for this disease. It is not known how the motor function and nigrostriatal gene expression of TH, VMAT2 and DAT behave in an intermediate term (30 days) following the pontine lesion.
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Lisette et al. (2023) studied this question.
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