Thursday, March 20, 2008

Promising Research On The Susceptibility To And Drug Targets For Parkinson's Disease

Source: Public Library of Science
Date: March 20, 2008

Summary:

Better understanding of Parkinson’s disease onset during aging is important for improving diagnostics and developing strategies for therapeutic intervention. Scientists from the University Medical Center in Groningen have now identified genes and processes that may underlie what makes some people more susceptible to this disease. Their findings are described in an article published March 21 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics.