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Delivery of the yeast Ndi1 into rodent brain. In order to express Ndi1 in the cell mitochondria recombinant adeno-associated virus particles carrying the yeast gene is injected near the substantia nigra. The dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra project their terminals into the striatum. This whole nigro-striatal pathway undergoes neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease
