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parkin counteracts symptoms in a Drosophila model of Parkinson's disease

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Neuroscience, April 2004
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Title
parkin counteracts symptoms in a Drosophila model of Parkinson's disease
Published in
BMC Neuroscience, April 2004
DOI 10.1186/1471-2202-5-14
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Authors

Annika FM Haywood, Brian E Staveley

Abstract

Parkinson's disease, a prevalent neurodegenerative disease, is characterized by the reduction of dopaminergic neurons resulting in the loss of motor control, resting tremor, the formation of neuronal inclusions and ultimately premature death. Two inherited forms of PD have been linked to mutations in the alpha-synuclein and parkin genes. The parkin protein functions as an ubiquitin ligase targeting specific proteins for degradation. Expression of human alpha-synuclein in Drosophila neurons recapitulates the loss of motor control, the development of neuronal inclusions, degeneration of dopaminergic neurons and the ommatidial array to provide an excellent genetic model of PD.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 1 1%
Finland 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Egypt 1 1%
Iceland 1 1%
Unknown 84 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 17%
Student > Bachelor 14 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 12%
Student > Master 10 11%
Professor 6 7%
Other 16 18%
Unknown 17 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 27 30%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 16%
Neuroscience 8 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 1%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 17 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 August 2014.
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#4,835,823
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from BMC Neuroscience
#203
of 1,294 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,100
of 51,242 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Neuroscience
#1
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