The possibility of a new treatment for Parkinson’sdisease has emerged, according to U.S. researchers claiming a key finding.
They said they recently discovered a glitch in cellfunction that can lead to the disease. In healthy cells, damaged proteins aredigested and recycled in a process called autophagy. Researchers “havefound in Parkinson’s there are problems in removing abnormal proteins,”according to Ana Maria Cuervo, cell biologist at the Albert Einstein College ofMedicine of Yeshiva University,
Cuervo and her team are hopeful that new drugs to aid inthe process of cleaning up abnormal proteins in cells will be available in fiveyears time, though they say these drugs will not be a cure for the disease.
