Epothilones protect against dopaminergic neuron loss in rodent models of Parkinson’s disease.38,39 However, when we tested whether epoD and epoB could protect spinal cord neuron loss within spared tissue, immunostaining for the neuronal marker NeuN showed a similar loss of neurons towards the lesion centre in all groups (Fig. 2F and G). This evidence concerns the gene RBFOX3 and Parkinson disease.