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Old 12-30-2020, 11:31 AM #1
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One-Time Treatment Generates New Neurons, Eliminates Parkinson’s Disease in Mice


But then he noticed something odd after a couple of weeks — there were very few fibroblasts left. Almost the whole dish was instead filled with neurons.
In this serendipitous way, the team discovered that inhibiting or deleting just a single gene, the gene that encodes PTB, transforms several types of mouse cells directly into neurons.
More recently, Fu and Hao Qian, PhD, another postdoctoral researcher in his lab, took the finding a big step forward, applying it in what could one day be a new therapeutic approach for Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Just a single treatment to inhibit PTB in mice converted native astrocytes, star-shaped support cells of the brain, into neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine. As a result, the mice’s Parkinson’s disease symptoms disappeared.
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They put a patent on it, so that will stop every one else from doing research,
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They put a patent on it, so that will stop every one else from doing research,
But, who knows what goes on behind closed doors?
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