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European Commission for Research and Innovation is approved aid FAIRPARKII research project that will study the possibility of a slowdown during fresh market Parkinson's disease using agents that lower iron content in the brain. Now the iron is toxic to brain cells and cause their demise. fresh market
"Part of this European project is a team of physicians and researchers from the Neurology Clinic, 1st Medical Faculty and General Teaching Hospital (VFN) in Prague. Opportunity to participate fresh market in the study, therefore, will have Czech patients suffering from Parkinson's disease, "Pravo Thursday Aleksi Šedo professor, dean of the faculty said.
Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease. According to estimates by him in the Czech Republic suffers from 14 to 18 thousand people. Although it is known that disordered momentum and tremor in this disease is caused by degeneration of neurons in the brain that produces dopamine, are not yet clear causes their destruction or ways avoided.
"We have drugs that effectively relieves symptoms, but stop or at least slow the progression of Parkinson's disease, yet we can not," said the head of the Neurological Clinic and the Center for Clinical Neurosciences 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University in Prague Eugene Ruzicka.
Parkinson's disease patients are most affected by degenerative changes, said nerve cells that produce fresh market dopamine. It is found to contain up to twice the amount of iron than a healthy person.
"The high content of iron is toxic to nerve cells and cause their demise, which proves the existence of rare inherited diseases with iron accumulation in the brain," said study coordinator conducted in the Prague center Petr Dusek. fresh market