(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers have developed an efficient way of making specific cells in high numbers that have worked in mice to reverse the damage caused by Parkinson’s disease and hope to be testing these cells ...
A new study shows that, when properly manipulated, a population of support cells found in the brain called astrocytes could provide a new and promising approach to treat Parkinson's disease. These findings, which were made ...
Jan 28, 2014
0
0
A new combination of drugs could fix the broken lysosomal enzyme pathway in Parkinson's disease-afflicted brain cells, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Neuron.
Nov 24, 2021
0
88
The human brain is lipid rich. Lipids and fatty acids contribute to many important cellular processes. Alpha-synuclein—a protein that plays a critical role in Parkinson's disease (PD)—is known to interact with and alter ...
Jun 9, 2022
0
3
A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center has shown how a protein, known to accumulate in Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, activates the brain's immune response.
May 12, 2015
0
109
The first test in a mammalian model of a potential new class of drugs to treat Parkinson's disease shows abatement of neurodegeneration in the brains of test rats and no significant toxicities, University of Alabama at Birmingham ...
Jun 26, 2015
0
50
A promising molecular pair has offered hope that could lead to the development of a new treatment to slow down Parkinson's disease, a study by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Harvard University ...
May 27, 2020
0
198
A novel system to control protein aggregation in a model of Parkinson's disease may answer longstanding questions about how the disease begins and spreads, according to a new study published March 9 in the open-access journal ...
Mar 22, 2022
0
34
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have shown that a hormone secreted into the blood during endurance, or aerobic, exercise reduces levels of a protein linked to Parkinson's ...
Sep 12, 2022
0
93
Imagine not wanting to leave your house because of fear you would drool. That's the choice many people with Parkinson's disease confront every day.
Feb 17, 2022
0
1
