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‘Sting' protein's response to clean up damaged brain cells may accelerate Parkinson's disease progression
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In studies with mouse and human tissue, as well as live mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that a snag in the normal process of cleaning up broken DNA in brain cells may hasten the progression of Parkinson's disease.
Read more ...Relapsing MS patients exhibit accelerated brain atrophy
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Relapsing MS patients, as well as those with disability progression independent of relapse activity, experienced increased brain atrophy, specifically in the cerebral cortex, researchers reported in JAMA Neurology.
Alessandro Cagol, MD, of the department of biomedical engineering at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues conducted an observational, longitudinal cohort study to determine whether disability progression independent of relapse activity in patients with relapsing MS is associated with accelerated brain tissue loss.
They acquired data from January 2012 through
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