Breakthrough in the fight against ALS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimers
We could potentially be making the drug to give to people with
ALS to
stop their complications altogether, he said. he discovery by Denton's team could help with other diseases like
Alzheimers, Parkinsons and more. How excited should we be? Over the moon ecstatic, Dr. Denton said.
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Its kind of like a flower or a fork in a road where
Parkinsons and Alzheimers and ALS... theyre completely different diseases, but as it turns out they really do intersect at a pathway, Dr. Denton said, and we found that intersection, is what we hope. The diseases have something in common called
autophagic dysfunction.
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Here is the hurdle they do not yet know how to get that drug where it needs to go in humans, the brain. The body protects the brain above all else, so it is hard to get a drug into the brain that the body will not attack like an invader. So they have to mask it somehow, kind of like a
Trojan Horse disguised to get past the brains gate.
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