neurodegenerative diseases treatment

Mechanism for coping with stresses gives cancer boost

harminka — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:02:25 -0500

An ancient mechanism for coping with environmental stresses, including heat and toxic exposures, also helps cancerous tumors survive, reveals a new report in the Sept. 21, 2007, issue of Cell, a publication of Cell Press. The findings could lead to a new way to treat cancer and may also have implications for the treatment of neurodegenerative and other diseases, according to the researchers.

Lithium devastating neurodegenerative disorder in mouse model

harminka — Tue, 29 May 2007 06:26:07 -0500

Lithium is one of the oldest psychiatric drugs and still used routinely to ameliorate the symptoms of mood disorders. New results by Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Harry Orr (University of Minnesota) and colleagues now suggest that lithium also holds promise in treating a group of devastating neurodegenerative disorders for which no other treatments exist at present.

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level

harminka — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:02:49 -0500

Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes, the human version of mad cow disease, and other degenerative diseases are more closely related at the molecular level than scientists realized, a team reports this week in an advanced online publication of the journal Nature.

New tool for studying disease and identifying ALS drugs

harminka — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:46:14 -0500

Results of two studies funded by Project A.L.S. and appearing in today's advance online publication of Nature Neuroscience demonstrate that embryonic stem cells may provide a new tool for studying disease mechanisms and for identifying drugs to slow ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.