Research Story Tip: Artificial Enzyme May Be First Step Toward Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease

[Wind_in_the_trees]

hopkinsmedicine.org/news/ne...

[Boscoejean]

while it sounds like this can do the job the thought of an injection into the brain is not very comforting

[Boscoejean]

The experimental evidence supporting the hypothesis that low copper levels are associated with PD implies that the use of molecules able to deliver copper into the brain might have beneficial effects on the progression of PD.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl....

[park_bear]

Study here:

sciencedirect.com/science/a...

The "enzyme" was a platinum-copper compound. It did seem to work in a mouse model. but skeptical about human safety.

[Zardoz]

Story is over two years old. Has there been progress since?

[Jana86]

This was published last week....not sure if it is progress exactly, but additional effort to understand root cause(s). nature.com/articles/s41380-...

[Rupa88]

This is from 2020

So another useless study

[gomelgo]

What use is any study that doesn't use a human model really?