Nice article....its that info that pushed me into the realm of myelin sheaths and the fraying and unraveling of the tail end of protein chains thus my diet high in neuroprotectants especially vit e to keep the myelin sheaths on my polypeptide chains intack. looooove biochem.


BT

Peptides helping researchers in search for Parkinson's disease treatment
Wednesday March 20, 2013

Australian researchers have taken the first step in using bioactive peptides as the building blocks to help 'build a new brain' to treat degenerative brain disease.
medicalxpress.com - Deakin University biomedical scientist Dr Richard Williams is working in a team with Dr David Nisbet from the Australian National University and Dr Clare Parish at the Florey Neuroscience Institute to develop a way to repair the damaged parts of the brain that cause Parkinson's disease.


Brer T

Thank you for sharing. Very interesting article.
-RJ

Hi, I got locked out of Daily Strength for the last week. It wouldn't remember my password and then 3x I requested a temporary pass word and today it finally sent me one, 1st time that has happened.

Anyway, read the article and it is very good. Plain language and explains exactly what I do - my body forgets how to do things. So as I see it we not only have to perform task in a moment by moment realm of knowledge with no past experience to draw from but what help we do get from the brain is garbled and mixed up. It's true, it's true everything is harder for us to do and yet our mind still overcomes this weakness. What a wonderful thing.

On Sat. I went to the City with a friend that I met in the last Fox Trial I was in. Her name is Sheila. It was so nice of her to invite me. It was a talk on PD Management and it was presented with help from many but hosted by the National Parkinson's Foundation. I learned that they are having a web cast on eyes and PD that I will get on tomorrow. I was off work today to go to an eye doctor. And I went to the site to see what it was all about - the Webcasts.

A past webcast was The Progression of PD - hmmm interesting. I listened to it and what the scientist said is exactly what the article said: The protein alpha-synuclein has something to do with or is an early sign of the corruption. The dr. doing the seminar who specializes in gastrointestinal issues in PD said that it has found in lab work from earlier tissue samples of colonoscopies performed years before on PDer's that the gut had alpha-synuclein protein and also that alpha-synuclein was found in the nose membrane of personx with PD. I thought that was also very interesting. I got the constipation and then the loss of smell then the anxiety and then the tremors.

He said that they are doing research to prove that alpha-synclein is in at the spot of the pder's earliest complaints. They think that it starts with the gut or nose or even both and then spreads to the brain. They are thinking that the gut and nose are both touched b ]]

With the help of insurance most people start getting colonoscopies at 40 or 45 and a simple inexpensive lab test could be preformed on the tissue taken from the colonoscopy and then study to see if those whose tests show a presence of alpha-synuclein do eventually get PD. Oh, well, the talk was very interesting.