... Pesticides and MPTP have also been found to be mitochondrial toxins. A recent report, however,suggests that mitochondrial complex I inhibition is notrequired for MPP+, and other pesticides, to induceneurodegeneration ... conversion of protofibrils to fibrillar structure.Thus, in the presence of MPTP, dopamine inducesa-synuclein to form fibrillar structures which are prob-ably less cytotoxic than the protofibrils. Similar ... MPTP, wasactually responsible for the neurotoxicity [7]. Inhumans and nonhuman primates, MPTP producesneurological, clinical and biochemical changes similar to those found in idiopathic Parkinson’s...