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Electrodes Placed in Brain May Offer Way of ‘Sensing’ Parkinson’s Arrival

Sep 16, 2020 07:00 am | Diana Campelo Delgado

 

dopamine and brain tissueEngineers with Michigan State University (MSU) are developing diamond-based electrodes that might detect early warning signs of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s in a living brain. MSU researchers Wen Li and Erin Purcell have received $3.4 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and an MSU Strategic Partnership Grant to conduct preclinical work evaluating the safety, durability, […]

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Supernus Submits SPN-830 Apomorphine Infusion Pump for FDA Approval

Sep 16, 2020 07:00 am | Marisa Wexler

 

SPN-830Supernus Pharmaceuticals has submitted a new drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval of SPN-830, its apomorphine infusion pump, the company said. If approved, the pump will be used for the continuous treatment of on-off episodes in adults with Parkinson’s disease who continue to experience motor symptoms after treatment with oral levodopa and […]

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Kynmobi Safe, Effective for ‘Off’ Periods Over Long Term, Ongoing Trial Reports

Sep 15, 2020 07:00 am | Marisa Wexler

 

Kynmobi trial dataSunovion‘s Kynmobi (apomorphine hydrochloride), a sublingual film treatment for “off” episodes in people with Parkinson’s disease, has a manageable safety profile and maintains efficacy over up to nearly a year of use, interim data from an ongoing Phase 3 trial show. Findings were presented at MDS Virtual Congress 2020 in the study, “A Long-Term Safety, Tolerability, […]

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Research Shows How PARK7 Gene Mutations Cause Early Onset Parkinson’s

Sep 15, 2020 07:00 am | Steve Bryson PhD

 

PARK7 geneMutations in the PARK7 gene, known to cause early onset Parkinson’s disease, result in low levels of a protein called DJ-1 that is essential for nerve cell health, a study revealed. In fixing a protein processing malfunction in cells derived from members of a single family who carried a particular mutation in this gene, a team […]

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