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Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease trigger neuronal cell death through endogenous suicide pathways. Surprisingly, although the cell death itself may occur relatively late in the course of the degenerative process, the mediators of the underlying cell-death pathways have shown promise as potential therapeutic targets.
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We apologize to all colleagues whose papers we were unable to cite owing to space limitations. We thank S. Rabizadeh, A. Kurakin, V. Galvan, D. Madden, L. Egger, J. Fombonne, T.-V. Nguyen, N. Rooke, K. Niazi, A. Swistowski, K. Poksay and S. Chen for critical reading of the manuscript, and M. Susag, L. Sheridan and R. Abulencia for manuscript preparation.
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Bredesen, D., Rao, R. & Mehlen, P. Cell death in the nervous system. Nature 443, 796–802 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05293
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