Parkinson's Disease Treatment
What will it take to STOP losing our loved ones to Parkinson's disease?
One of the most desirable therapeutic goals for both treatment and prevention of Parkinson’s disease is neuroprotection, which to date has been relatively elusive. Adult stem cells from body fat tissue have been found to secrete neuroprotective substances. This important discovery has sparked new research for developing a treatment that would protect brain neurons from the injury and death that leads to the progression of Parkinson’s disease.
A current research study supported by Indiana Parkinson Foundation and Cell Therapy Foundation is identifying the properties of the adult stem cells and their “conditioned medium” (ASC-CM) that have the ability to protect neurons. This is a first step to developing the most effective ASC-CM for Parkinson’s disease treatment.
The Indiana Parkinson Foundation and Cell Therapy Foundation need to raise $50,000 together and with your help to take Parkinson’s disease research to the next level.
This next step will be designed to test the ASC-CM for its ability to neuroprotect an animal with Parkinson’s disease. This study will lay the groundwork for preclinical toxicity studies to determine the most effective dose for future clinical use in humans.
IT WILL TAKE $50,000 to conduct the first trial using adult stem cell conditioned medium to treat animals with Parkinson’s disease.
IT WILL TAKE YOU. The investigators are ready. The rest is up to YOU. Please contribute. Some whom you love, and many others, are depending on your generosity for a chance to fight Parkinson’s by saving their dying neurons.