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Engineered Stem Cells Show Promise For Sneaking Drugs Into The Brain
December 15, 2005 UW-Madison scientists have found a new way to sneak drugs past the blood-brain barrier by engineering and implanting progenitor brain cells derived from stem cells to produce and deliver a critical ... > full story -
Evidence Links Cocaine Abuse And Parkinson's Disease
December 14, 2005 Adults who abuse cocaine might increase their risk of developing Parkinson's disease (PD), and pregnant women who abuse cocaine could increase the risk of their children developing PD later in life, ... > full story -
Mayo Clinic Study Finds Occupation And Education Influence Risk For Parkinson's Disease
November 25, 2005 Mayo Clinic researchers have found that an individual's educational and career paths impact Parkinson's disease risk later in life. The investigators, led by Walter Rocca, M.D., a Mayo Clinic ... > full story -
New Drug Target Identified For Fighting Parkinson's Disease
November 21, 2005 Researchers at Johns Hopkins' Institute for Cell Engineering (ICE) have discovered a protein that could be the best new target in the fight against Parkinson's disease since the brain-damaging ... > full story -
Restricting Diet May Reverse Early-Stage Parkinson's
November 15, 2005 A new Oregon Health & Science University and Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center study suggests that early-stage Parkinson's disease patients who lower their calorie intake may boost levels ... > full story -
Disease-Causing Protein Protects Against Nerve Damage In Parkinson's Disease
November 7, 2005 Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that a protein associated with causing neurodegenerative conditions may, when appearing in normal amounts, actually protect against ... > full story -
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I Think, Therefore I Fall
October 10, 2005 The patient came into the doctor's office in a wheelchair, weighted down by a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, taking medication for the disorder and insisting she was unable to stand or walk. ... > full story -
Research Provides First Whole Genome Map Of Genetic Variability In Parkinson's Disease
September 13, 2005 Mayo Clinic researchers in collaboration with scientists at Perlegen Sciences, Inc. and funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research have produced the first large-scale whole ... > full story -
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Animal Model Of Parkinson's Disease Reveals Striking Sensitivity To Common Environmental Toxins
September 9, 2005 In findings that support a relationship between agricultural chemicals and Parkinson's disease, two groups of researchers have found new evidence that loss of DJ-1, a gene known to be linked to ... > full story -
New Target Found To Fight, Treat Parkinson's
August 24, 2005 Neuroscientists from the University at Buffalo have described for the first time how rotenone, an environmental toxin linked specifically to Parkinson's disease, selectively destroys the neurons that ... > full story
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