First photoactive drug to fight Parkinson’s disease

[caption id="attachment_5144" align="alignleft" width="260"] The MRS7145 photoactive drug is effective in animal models with Parkinson’s disease, according to the study published in the Journal of Controlled Release[/caption]   An international team has designed the first potentially therapeutic photoactive drug –MRS7145– to fight Parkinson’s disease, according to the...

New therapeutic target that could slow Parkinson’s progression

A team of researchers of the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have identified a possible mechanism to slow the neurodegenerative progression of Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s neuronal degeneration is caused by Lewy bodies, abnormal aggregates created...