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 Parkinsons Disease Chat
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Welcome to the Parkinsons Disease Chat & Message Boards.
You can use this site for:
Posting messages to other visitors who may have Parkinsons Disease.
Ask questions to be answered by Parkinsons Disease chat peers.
Inform others of your experiences with Parkinsons Disease.
Tell others what treatments have worked for you.
Read the latest Parkinsons Disease treatment information
and news.
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National Parkinson Foundation designates UNC as 'Center of Excellence'
The National Parkinson Foundation has designated the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an NPF Center of Excellence.
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Dental Pulp Cells May Hold Key to Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
Cells derived from the inside of a tooth might someday prove an effective way to treat the brains of people suffering from Parkinson's disease.
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APOE Gene Linked to Parkinson's Disease
One variant of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene may increase the risk of Parkinson's disease, according to an analysis of research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 56th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., April 24 – May 1, 2004.
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Nitric oxide links bulk of sporadic and familial Parkinson's disease
Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that nitric oxide, a chemical messenger involved in bodily functions from erection to nerves' communication, also shuts down a protein involved in Parkinson's disease.
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A New Protective Protein Against Parkinson's Disease
In a recent finding that broadens our understanding of axon loss in neurodegenerative disorders, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have shown that a spontaneous dominant mutation has a protective effect on axons in an mouse model of Parkinson's disease.
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UVA Researchers Make Cellular Model of Parkinson's Disease
For the first time, scientists at the University of Virginia Health System have engineered cells that produce the pathological hallmark found in the brain cells of all patients with Parkinson’s disease – Lewy bodies, tiny balls of damaged protein, found only in the brain and discovered more than ninety years ago.
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