Spinobulbar muscular atrophy. Multipotent precursor cells from which differentiated cells arise. Target area of the brain for dopamine-releasing neurons of the substantia nigra. Area of the brain containing dopamine-releasing cells that project to another brain area, the striatum. This connection is important in motor control and is damaged in the brains of patients with parkinsonism.
T lymphocytes, or T cells.
Cells involved in immune system response to antigens and graft rejection. An inherited disorder, marked by inability to break down a fatty substance in the brain, resulting in mental and physical degeneration. Drugs that prevent preterm labor. Process by which RNA is synthesized on a DNA template. Animals, often mice, to whose genome new, functional DNA fragments have been added by transection of fertilized eggs.