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Neuromelanin
Original title: ニューロメラニン
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The midbrain contains cells that look black because they contain a pigment called neuromelanin. Parkinson's disease is a disease in which these cells (= substantia nigra cells) decrease. Because neuromelanin is made from a substance called dopa, decreasing these cells reduces dopa and dopamine (dopamine is what works within the brain). Brain function is indispensable for walking.
中脳にはニューロメラニンという色素があるため黒く見える細胞があります。 この細胞（＝黒質細胞）が減る病気がパーキンソン病です。 ニューロメラニンはドーパという物質から出来ているため、この細胞が減るとドーパ、ドーパミン（脳内で働くのはドーパミン）が減ります。 歩くためには脳の働きが欠かせません。
Source updated 2023-12-20 · Snapshot 2026-10-08
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- NeuromelaninComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.248 · shared title, text, tags and references
- NeuromancerComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.157 · shared title, text, tags and references
- Dopamine PathwaysComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.130 · shared title, text, tags and references
- Formal NeuronComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.115 · shared title, text, tags and references