There’s quiet but confident hope for a breakthrough treatment for Parkinson’s disease, following a successful drug trial in Australia.
It ticked two boxes when it comes to treating the debilitating degenerative disease: Improved patient symptoms and it stopped the progression of Parkinson’s.
Still a long way to go but at least it got through phase 1 of human testing.
Thank you for sharing this! I am thrilled to see that it has actually been used on humans instead of mice or fruit flies. I think this is one of the most encouraging posts I've seen. 😊
hi iqbaliqbal thanks very much for the post, very encouraging indeed
Thank you for this encouraging post. Now if they could figure out a way to get research to the patient faster things would really be good Bubee.
There is also an abstract available, from the WORLD CONGRESS ON PARKINSON҅S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS (2019):
(4MB PDF - see page 119)
I wonder what it is?
Good old Australia - getting things done.
I wonder if the same applies to iron? I have read there is also excess iron in the brain but perhaps this too is deficient in the cells of the brain?
"CuATSM is a small synthetic molecule that contains copper. ..developed in Japan as an imaging agent for hypoxic tissues, based on finding that CuATSM selectively delivers copper to hypoxic tissues, but not normal tissues. In 2005....began discussing the potential of CuATSM to treat neurodegenerative diseases. Subsequently, they showed that CuATSM selectively releases copper in cells with damaged mitochondrial electron transport chains, which are characteristic of many neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS/MND, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. They also showed that CuATSM eliminates peroxynitrite, a chemical that inhibits components of the mitochondrial electron transport chain. CMD licensed commercial rights to CuATSM for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases from the University of Melbourne."
imho, there you have the frame work of the design, it is singular, a reductionist approach
hi iqbal ?? some new news about this trial ?? And some new news about PD (and please not about co-thing 19 !) ???
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