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Awakening Dormant Neurons Could Provide Disease-modifying Parkinson’s Treatment, Early Study Suggests

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Awakening Dormant Neurons Could Provide Disease-modifying Parkinson’s Treatment, Early Study Suggests

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Quote:Although the results from several clinical trials have cast doubt on the therapeutic efficacy of traditional MAO-B inhibitors, researchers say they have recently developed a new inhibitor, KDS2010. KDS2010 effectively inhibits astrocytic GABA production with minimal side effects in Alzheimer’s animal models and also could be effective for alleviating Parkinson’s motor symptoms, the investigators said.

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So excited at this news. It has been questioned whether dopamine cells die or are dormant. I'll take dormant!

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