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Mice With Parkinson's-Like Brain Changes Unexpectedly Recovered a Year Later
Three weeks of exposure to a pesticide left laboratory mice moving slowly and struggling to balance. Scientists were using the chemical to study some of the movement problems seen in Parkinson's disease.
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Three weeks of exposure to a pesticide left laboratory mice moving slowly and struggling to balance. Scientists were using the chemical to study some of the movement problems seen in Parkinson's disease. But as they continued watching the animals after exposure ended, those problems began to ease.
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