. . . . . . . "[In the healthy brain, neuromelanin appears to play a functional role to protect neurons from oxidative load but we have shown that in the Parkinson's disease brain the pigment undergoes structural changes and is associated with aggregation of ?-synuclein protein, even early in the disease process.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2017-01-25"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations manually curated."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - CURATED"@en . "2017-10-17T13:16:20+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v5.0.0.0" . "v5.0.0" .