Pericytes take up and degrade α-synuclein but succumb to apoptosis under cellular stress
Tissue sources The use of human tissue and collection procedures were approved by the Northern Regional Ethics Committee (New Zealand) for biopsy tissue (AKL/88/025). Biopsy human brain tissue was obtained with informed written consent from the patient and family members. Tissue used in this study was derived from drug-refractive epilepsy patients and from regions resected from patients … Read more