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Friday, May 17, 2013

Virtual Team Parkinson's Research: Halting Toxic Proteins

Dr. Jack Harless Team Captain






Team Parkinson’s has 16 members at this time. This week we looked at preliminary research from Georgetown University Medical Center where tiny doses of a leukemia drug have been used to halt accumulation of toxic proteins linked to Parkinson's disease in the brains of mice. This finding provides the basis to plan a clinical trial in humans to study the effects.




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