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Do you see any curative Parkison (not even reversing the damage but stopping it) treatment being available in the next few years ?
by nick__m 1y ago
Do you see any curative Parkison (not even reversing the damage but stopping it) treatment being available in the next few years ?
- caycep 1y agoin short, and off the top of my head, not in a few years. GLP-1 (exenatide trial) failed to show benefit Phase 3 prasinezumab (synuclein targeted monoclonal ab) also have not been impressive although I think Novartis is chasing after some statistical signals that popped up in secondary endpoints there is some academic chatter I heard about elucidating more the process of how normal synuclein turns into the abnormal insoluble form, so that might be the most promising direction. A couple new stem cell implant trials but not sure if they solved the big problems w/ the last trials - the stem cells eventually develop parkinsonian features, and also it doesn't replace the connectivity/networks that is lost. Other big question is really what starts the process in the first place since symptomatic patients at initial diagnosis now thought to have been "preclinical" w/ prodromal form for several years...we still don't know.