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Latest Stem Cell Trial Attempts New Approach to Treating Parkinson's
August 6, 2018
… the work. Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are derived from adult cells and can be manipulated to act like …
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Changes in the Eye May Be a Window to Parkinson's Disease
August 29, 2018
… of Parkinson's disease may lie in the eye. A small study from South Korea published recently in the journal Neurology … non-invasive ways to measure Parkinson's disease: from dogs sniffing out Parkinson's to measuring changes in …
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Parkinson's Tozadenant Trial Discontinued
November 15, 2017
… will undergo weekly blood cell count monitoring from now on. It's unclear whether this adverse event is … completely unrelated. All adverse events -- everything from pneumonia to a car accident -- that occur in …
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Moshe Kushnir, MD
… of Israel. Dr. Kushnir has received his MD degree in 1973 from the Medical School of the Hebrew University of … including running an active private neurology clinic. From l989 to l99l, Dr. Kushnir was awarded a clinical …
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RNAi Screening and Analysis of Factors Influencing ER-Associated Degradation and Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation in C. elegans
… Failure of proteins to adopt their proper structure is a common cause of cellular dysfunction. Quality control mechanisms within cells serve to promote accurate protein folding. Breakdown of these neuroprotective processes can result in aberrant aggregation or clumping of proteins and is a hallmark …
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Development & characterization of adult substantia nigra derived neural progenitor cells
… nervous system retain the capacity to generate new neurons from endogenous immature progenitor cells. Our preliminary … Successful approaches will be applied to human cells from the animal prototypes. Our overall goal is to develop …