All Articles Tagged As: parkinsons disease

Study Finds Way to Prevent Protein Clumping Characteristic of Parkinson's Disease (8/16/2008)

Researchers have identified a protein from a most unlikely source -- baker's yeast -- that might protect against Parkinson's disease.' ...> Full Article

Scientists Replicate Diseases in the Lab with New Stem Cell Lines (8/11/2008)

A set of new stem cell lines will make it possible for researchers to explore ten different genetic disorders-including muscular dystrophy, juvenile diabetes, and Parkinson's disease-in a variety of cell and tissue types as they develop in laboratory cultures. ...> Full Article

Genetic Mechanisms linked to Parkinson's Disease Uncovered (7/27/2008)

Researchers show direct pathway which could be targeted for drug therapy ...> Full Article

Blood-related genetic mechanisms found important in Parkinson's disease (7/22/2008)

Genetic mechanisms at play in blood cells also control a gene and protein that cause Parkinson's disease. ...> Full Article

Adult stem cell findings offer new hope for Parkinson's cure (6/8/2008)

Research released today provides evidence that a cure for Parkinson's disease could lie just inside the nose of patients themselves. ...> Full Article

Treatment Improves Walking Ability of Parkinson's Patients (6/4/2008)

Pilot Study Tests Treatment Called "Functional Electrical Stimulation" ...> Full Article

Electrode re-implantation helps some Parkinson's disease patients (5/13/2008)

A study of seven patients with Parkinson's disease suggests that those who have poor results following implantation of electrodes to stimulate the brain may benefit from additional surgery to correct the electrode placement ...> Full Article

Cell-Based Therapy Shows Promise in Patients with Parkinson's Disease (4/30/2008)

A novel cell therapy using retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells attached to tiny gelatin bead microcarriers implanted in the brain can improve the symptoms of patients with moderate to advanced Parkinson's disease ...> Full Article

Researchers identify process that may help treat Parkinson's, spinal cord injuries (4/23/2008)

A new discovery may lead to a better understanding of how the spinal cord controls how people walk. These insights could help lead to treatments for central nervous system maladies such as Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries. ...> Full Article

Elevated urate levels may slow progression of Parkinson's disease (4/22/2008)

Findings may lead to new treatment trials ...> Full Article

Advanced MRI Studies Provide New Insight on Early Parkinson's Disease (4/22/2008)

Researchers can identify brain regions linked to Parkinson's disease based on images showing the status of both white and grey matter ...> Full Article

Different mutations in a single gene suggests Parkinson's disease is primarily an inherited genetic disorder (4/21/2008)

Two new international studies are rounding out the notion that Parkinson's disease is largely caused by inherited genetic mutations that pass through scores of related generations over hundreds, if not thousands of years ...> Full Article

Elevated urate levels may slow the progression of Parkinson's disease (4/19/2008)

Study may lead to new therapy ...> Full Article

Stalevo may provide more benefit than standard therapy for early Parkinson's disease (4/18/2008)

A new study in patients with early Parkinson's disease demonstrates that Stalevo (a combination of levodopa/carbidopa/entacapone) provides better symptom control and greater improvements in activities of daily living than levodopa/carbidopa, the most widely-used current therapy. ...> Full Article

Identification of dopamine 'mother cells' could lead to future Parkinson's treatments (4/9/2008)

'Mother cells' which produce the neurons affected by Parkinson's disease have been identified by scientists ...> Full Article

Pieces coming together in Parkinson's, cholesterol puzzle (4/8/2008)

People with low levels of LDL cholesterol are more likely to have Parkinson's disease than people with high LDL levels ...> Full Article

Uterine Stem Cells Create New Neurons That Can Curb Parkinson's Disease (4/1/2008)

The injection of uterine stem cells trigger growth of new brain cells in mice with Parkinson's disease ...> Full Article

Impaired sense of smell may be early indicator of Parkinson's disease (3/25/2008)

Impaired sense of smell occurs in the earliest stages of Parkinson's disease (PD) and there is mounting evidence that it may precede motor symptoms by several years, although no large-scale studies had confirmed this. In the first study involving the general population, researchers found that smell impairment can precede the development of PD in men by at least four years. The study is published in the Annals of Neurology, the official journal of the American Neurological Association. ...> Full Article

New research provides genetic clue to Parkinson's disease (3/22/2008)

Gene linked to development of the disease in those with a family history ...> Full Article

Researchers find key step in programmed cell death (3/6/2008)

The discovery provides insight into how certain proteins, including Hax1, work and how they control the process of apoptosis ...> Full Article

Out-of-whack protein may boost Parkinson's (3/2/2008)

A single change in a protein may play a role in whether someone develops Parkinson's disease, say University of Florida Genetics Institute researchers writing in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ...> Full Article

Researchers find clue to how the brain rusts (2/12/2008)

Researchers have discovered that the mechanism that we rely on to transport iron safely through our blood stream can, in certain circumstances, collapse into a state which grows long worm-like "fibrils" banded by lines of iron rust. This process could provide the first insight into how iron gets deposited in the brain to cause some forms of Parkinson's & Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases. ...> Full Article

High Blood Pressure Pill Cuts Risk of Parkinson's Disease (2/8/2008)

People taking a widely used group of drugs known as calcium channel blockers to treat high blood pressure also appear to be cutting their risk of Parkinson's disease, according to a study published in the February 6, 2008, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. ...> Full Article

For treating advanced Parkinson's, new research points to serotonin (2/7/2008)

For most people with Parkinson's disease, the only relief from the tremors, rigidity and impaired movement associated with the progressive loss of their motor skills is a drug called L-DOPA. But as the disease progresses, L-DOPA can cause prominent side effects that counteract its effectiveness. ...> Full Article