Parkinson's disease protein causes disease spread and neuron death in healthy animals
Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 20:31
in Health & Medicine
Understanding how any disease progresses is one of the first and most important steps towards finding treatments to stop it. This has been the case for such brain-degenerating conditions as Alzheimer's disease. Now, after several years of incremental study, researchers have been able to piece together important steps in how Parkinson’s disease (PD) spreads from cell to cell and leads to nerve cell death.