Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Gene Therapy: Promise for Parkinson's

First dozen the Parkinson patients to have boreholes inside their craniums for an attempt at gene therapy of novel were not harm - and the councils with a certain improvement have researchers to embark on a greater study to see whether the treatment really can function.

The doctors reported preliminary results of the experiment narrowly observed at a meeting Monday of neurology, but informed that it is remote too early to raise hopes.

With the question: Use of a growth promoter of nerve to try to save the cells of brain of death.

Approximately 1.5 million Americans have Parkinson, a disease which gradually destroys the cells of brain which produce the dopamine, a crucial chemical for the cellular one announcing that movement of muscle of orders. Not enough dopamine causes increasingly serious tremors and periodically stiff or frozen members.

The standard treatments can order tremors during one moment but cannot stop the inevitable walk of the disease. Thus the scientists are manners of hunting of protecting the neurons remaining dopamine-producers, and the delivery those of deaths.

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