How close are we to finally developing a treatment for Parkinson's disease? 🧐
on Thursday, researchers have compared the brain cells of patients who had died from either Parkinson's disease or dementia to people unaffected by the disorders and found which brain cells are responsible for both conditions.
Through this process, the team was able to isolate 10 distinct subtypes of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra, one of which stood out as largely missing in the brains of people with Parkinson's disease. They further discovered that the molecular processes linked to cell death in other neurodegenerative diseases were exaggerated in this same group of dopaminergic neurons.
The study, however, does not have a sufficient amount of subjects to be conclusive. It can still, however, serve in further research on the two conditions.Researchers can recreate these vulnerable cells in a lab to further study them and their influence on the human body.
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