Commentary Open Access
Volume 2 | Issue 5 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/immunology.2.043
Is Cellular Senescence of Dopaminergic Neurons the Cause of Local Inflammation in the Midbrain Observed in Parkinson’s Disease?
Markus Riessland1,*
- 1Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave, New York, NY 10065, USA
Corresponding Author
Markus Riessland, mriessland@rockefeller.edu
Received Date: May 21, 2020
Accepted Date: June 06, 2020
Riessland M. Is Cellular Senescence of Dopaminergic Neurons the Cause of Local Inflammation in the Midbrain Observed in Parkinson’s Disease? J Cell Immunol. 2020; 2(5): 201-204.
Copyright: © 2020 Riessland M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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