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October 14, 2013 10:36 pm GMT

A Trojan Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease

Neuron

Deep in the base of the brain, a cascade of events including oxidative damage and inflammation can kill neurons, resulting in the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

An international team of researchers has now developed a technique that might be used to prevent this cell death. They engineer a patient’s own immune cells to carry protective stowaway molecules, and these Trojan cells can help prevent neuron death by delivering treatments across the blood-brain barrier — a layer of cellular structures that blocks most molecules from passing into the brain. The researchers have so far tested the approach successfully in mice. Read more...

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