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Studying Blood Proteins to Improve Diagnosis and Tracking of Parkinson's Disease
… cells called peripheral blood mononuclear cells and use a research tool called mass spectrometry to discover nascent … healthy people and people with Parkinson's. Impact on Diagnosis/Treatment of Parkinson's Disease: Finding … may also give us and other researchers useful insight into disease mechanism. …
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Seven Things to Do the Day After Your Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis
January 30, 2015
… Here's a tip-a-day to get you through the first week after diagnosis. 1. Do a little quality breathing. "Take a deep … there. 2. If you are fretting about the accuracy of your diagnosis, set up a second opinion appointment with … You are what you eat and you might have to get yourself into gear. Diet advice abounds and you might want to check …
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Team Fox Member Allan Cole Writes about Disclosing His Parkinson's Diagnosis
September 25, 2020
… as we discussed the pros and cons of sharing my Parkinson’s diagnosis publicly. It had taken me the better part of a … table the first time we saw one another after I shared my diagnosis publicly and said, “Allan, I’m so sorry you have … courageous, beautiful souls who also live with Parkinson’s into my life, and shown me that living in solidarity and …
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Testing Novel Compounds for Noninvasive Delivery of Small Interfering RNA into CNS
… vectors that can specifically deliver functional siRNA into cultured neuronal cells. The objective of our proposal … disease such as alpha-synuclein gene. Relevance to Diagnosis/Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: Recent genetic … deliver functional siRNA targeting the brain. Our results clearly demonstrated that our non-viral vectors have the …
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Fox Trial Finder Ambassador Refuses to Take Her Diagnosis Lying Down
April 17, 2014
… of her transformative experience playing an active role in research. Below is an excerpt from the article. Cianci, who … four years ago at the age of 49. She admits that when the diagnosis was first confirmed, she was despondent. “I … effects of Parkinson’s. So when the couple learned about research on biking and the brain by neuroscientist Jay …
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Characterization of Research Antibodies for Parkinson’s Community-nominated Targets
… Antibodies are essential for detecting proteins, but nearly 50% of commercial antibodies fail to work … a GPS that’s only right half the time. In Parkinson’s research, this leads to conflicting results and wasted … identification of antibodies will enable further research into the correlation between these proteins and Parkinson’s …