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Hi, I think, please everyone check me on this, it goes something like this--cells, in our case neurons die; cells are supposed to die and be replenished or we would have too many. But sometimes things go wrong and apoptosis, the cell's programming for cell "suicide" or death, occurs when it shouldn't, and no one knows why. It is a BIG question in research. For cancer I suppose they would like to provoke apoptosis in the tumor; in our case, to slow or stop it. As I said at the start, this is my recollection of the very basic concept, and it needs checking. Charlotte On Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:58:24 -0400 Bob Allison <[log in to unmask]> writes: > Does anybody have any info on the experimental use of kinase > inhibitors to > slow PD? There is a clinical trial for new PDers and I may enlist. > I > looked in PubMed but all of the relevant articles are way over my > head. > This class of drugs seems to revolve around the research on > apoptosis(?) > which seems to be a key line of research in the battle against > cancer. Any > signs would be appreciated. > > PS Raj I did figure out how to access ALL med journals on pubmed; > thanks > for your tips. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn