Tag: Lewy Bodies

Researchers have explained how a protein found in both yeast and humans facilitates the destruction of the core protein responsible for Parkinson's disease. An aggregate that impairs clearance Loss of ProteostasisThe loss of proteostasis is the failure of the protein-building machinery of the cell and the accumulation of misfolded proteins, which is one of the...

In Aging, a pair of researchers has published a perspective connecting fat (lipid) accumulation and cellular senescence in neurons to Parkinson's disease. α-syn, but not just α-syn Parkinson's disease is characterized by the loss of a specific population of neurons: the dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, a part of the brain that governs movement...

A team of researchers publishing in Nature Communications has described nanobodies that can destroy the α-synuclein aggregates that characterize Lewy bodies, which are associated with dementia and Parkinson's disease [1]. What are nanobodies? Traditional antibody therapies, while promising in some studies, are too large to enter cells in order to affect the aggregates there [2]....