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Source: Viartis HUGE FUNDING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) announced today that it will award three new grants totalling more than $20 million dollars to study how environmental factors contribute to the cause, prevention and treatment of Parkinson's Disease. The three grantees include : (1) Gary Miller of Emory University, Atlanta, who will be looking at how environmental and genetic factors interact to alter these functions in dopamine neurons. They will be attempting to develop new biomarkers in the blood that will help identify people that may be at risk for developing Parkinson's disease; (2) Marie-Françoise Chesselet of UCLA, who is aiming to show associations between high levels of exposure to specific environmental pesticides and Parkinson's' disease, and determine the mechanisms of action that may be causing this association; (3) Stuart Lipton of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in California will explore how environmental toxicants may contribute to Parkinson's Disease by producing free radical stress that mimics or enhances the effects of known genetic mutations. For more information these projects go to the Complete article. There are a number of known toxic causes of Parkinson's Disease. For more information go to the Toxic causes of Parkinson's Disease. However, the number of people known to be suffering from Parkinson's Diisease due to any of these toxic causes is very few. Toxicity has never been shown to be the primary cause of Parkinson's Disease. 18th September 2008 - News release Rayilyn Brown Director AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn