Maria Grazia Spillantini
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Maria Grazia Spillantini
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Maria Grazia Spillantini, is Professor of Molecular Neurology in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge. She is most noted for identifying the protein alpha-synuclein as the major component of Lewy bodies, the characteristic protein deposit found in the brain in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. She has also identified mutations in the MAPT gene as a heritable cause for frontotemporal dementia.
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Italian neuroscientist
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2013-10-11T16:54:50Z
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2024-09-13T08:32:02Z
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