Neuroinflammation as a Common Feature of Neurodegenerative Disorders

Neurodegenerative diseases share the fact that they derive from altered proteins that undergo an unfolding process followed by formation of -structures, and a pathological tendency to self-aggregate in neuronal cells. This is a characteristic of tau protein in Alzheimer´s disease and several tauopathies associated to tau unfolding, synuclein in Parkinson disease and huntingtin in Huntington disease. Usually the self-aggregation products are toxic to these cells, and toxicity spreads all over different brain areas. We have postulated that these protein unfolding events are the molecular alterations that trigger several neurodegenerative disorders. Most interestingly, these events occur as a result of…

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