Springer Verlag, Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, 6(152), p. 731-733
DOI: 10.1007/s10517-012-1618-7
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Aggregation of proteins liable to assembling into fibrils with subsequent formation of amyloid incorporations is an important component in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative diseases. Dimebon, a Russian drug, reduces the content of detergent-insoluble fibrillar forms of synuclein, the main protein component of pathological incorporations in neurons of transgenic mouse strain used in the study.