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On the other hand, GPX4 may have neuroprotective functions, and the regulation of GPX4 might be a new strategy for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases including epilepsy
These discoveries have given rise to the idea that bipolar disorder is a bioenergetic and metabolic disease with psychiatric manifestations, and that disruptions in the molecular and cellular signalling networks that regulate brain energy metabolism in a biphasic manner are a primary, sufficient cause of bipolar disorder-related phenomena [189]
On the contrary, alterations in the C-terminal seemed less critical for activity and for instance a deletion of the C-terminal phenylalanine residue of 1 had only a minor impact and the binding affinity was essentially maintained (Sardinia et al., 1993