Source: Karolinska Institutet
Posted: July 28, 2006
Summary:
Researchers are discovering mechanisms that may explain one set of causes for Parkinson's disease. They have mimicked disturbances of mitochondria, thought to be one cause of disease, in a mouse model of the diseasese. By genetic means the disturbance of mitochondria - the energy factories of cells - were directed to those nerve cells that produce the transmitter substance dopamine and that die in Parkinson's disease.
Commentary: This finding seems as if it might provide a basis for research to eventually enable nerve cells to produce dopamine and effectively treat Parkinson's disease.
No comments:
Post a Comment