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Pro-survival effects of PINK1

However parkinsonism is initiated, the progressive symptoms are similarly devastating. So insights from analyses of gene mutations linked to these disorders should aid a better general understanding of them.

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Figure 1: Parkinsonism and signalling within mitochondria.

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