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The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Earmarks $2 Million to Study Role of Inflammation in PD
January 16, 2003
… in Parkinson’s disease. Inflammation is an immune system response to injury or disease, but chronic … research. This initiative seeks to approach the issue from multiple angles, including: Evaluating the prevalence of … that enhance survival of cell grafts in the nigrostriatal system; and Exploring immune status as a biomarker of …
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Development of a Biomarker Platform for Parkinson’s Disease Using Patient-derived Cells
… addresses this need by developing a unique human cellular system for the early identification and study of … investigator plans to grow skin fibroblasts derived from multiple Parkinson's patients and age-matched controls and …
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Studies on the effects of peripheral inflammation on the progression of Parkinson ´s disease
… microglial activation. Particulary, there is evidence that systemic infections exacerbate disease progression in Multiple sclerosis, AD and prion disease models. We …
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Developing Circuit-Targeting Optogenetic Strategies for Pre-Clinical Model Motor Circuitry
… trafficking and axonal transduction. It will require a systematic exploration of multiple opsins and multiple targeting strategies to achieve this goal. …
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The Prescott Family Initiative at The Arizona Parkinson's Disease Consortium
… pathological markers of PD in both the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system. These studies could lead to an earlier diagnosis of … Disease Consortium is a consortium of investigators at multiple institutions throughout Arizona: Mayo Clinic …
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Michael Sierks, PhD
… deposits around nerve cells in the brain leading to cell atrophy and death. Dr. Sierks is developing multifunctional …