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Science 1 February 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5556, pp. 809 - 810
DOI: 10.1126/science.1069544
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Perspectives

NEUROBIOLOGY:
Chaperones Take Flight

Stephen L. Helfand

The fruit fly is turning out to be a valuable model of human neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD) and a useful tool for screening potential therapeutics for treating these illnesses. In his Perspective, Helfand discusses a new fly model of PD in which the loss of dopaminergic neurons is prevented by expression of chaperone proteins (Auluck et al.).

The author is in the Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USA. E-mail: shelfand{at}neuron.uchc.edu

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