Parkinson's Disease Tulip


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Old 07-12-2010, 03:18 PM #1
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Default How little they know:Why Parkinson's disease patients aren't walking tall?

How little they know! the golden standard sinemet is allmost useless to treat main symptoms like tremor, gait, sleep disorder, speech problems, memory loss, etc. . Yet this not so golden standard is pushed like hell even if you don't suffer from immobility but you have only the symptoms that l-dopa does not address.
See my thread : http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ight=imark3000
The following article is very relevant and suggest other than ldopa treatment targeting acetylcholine-producing nerve cells.

Imad

http://www.physorg.com/news198136246.html

However, such drugs do not improve the gait disorders and falls that commonly affect individuals with severe and advanced forms of Parkinson disease. Understanding which nerve cells in the brain are involved in these symptoms of Parkinson disease might provide researchers with new therapeutic targets.

In this context, a team of researchers, led by Chantal François and Etienne Hirsch, at Université Pierre et Marie Curie — Paris 6, France, has now determined that the presence of gait disorders in patients with Parkinson disease and in aged monkeys with Parkinson-like disease was associated with loss of nerve cells that produce the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in a region of the brain known as the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN). Consistent with this, disrupting these nerve cells induced gait and postural deficits in monkeys.

The authors therefore suggest that targeting acetylcholine-producing nerve cells in the PPN might provide a way to alleviate the gait disorders and falls experienced by individuals with Parkinson disease

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