A comparative study between the effects of C-terminally truncated a-synuclein metabolites and full length a-synuclein in aged rat hippocampal neurons

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http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1037798

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Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

I am a neurologist from Xi�an Jiaotong University, China. My major research interest is in neurodegenerative diseases, especially Parkinson and Alzheimer�s disease. I enter this field because I know ageing population will have an enormous impact on the world�s economy. I started collaboration with Dr. Weiping Gai in Flinders University. We are interested in the toxic effects of both a-synuclein and its metabolites, their mechanisms and ways to block them.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2014

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $231,284.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cellular Nervous System

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Other Keywords

Parkinson disease | hippocampus | nerve growth factors (NGF) | neuronal death | synuclein

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