Parkinson Disease

Gene therapy moves forward in animals

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, March 3rd, 2005

An international team of scientists has used gene therapy in two separate studies to renew brain cells and restore normal movements in monkeys and rats with a drug-induced form of Parkinson disease.

The research, detailed online in the scientific publications Brain and the Journal of Neuroscience, essentially describes one strategy to halt Parkinson disease at its onset and another strategy to treat the devastating side effects that occur when treating the disease in its later stages.

By inserting corrective genes into the brain, scientists studying small monkeys called marmosets prevented brain damage by producing therapeutic levels of...

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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2005-03-03)

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