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---------------- from the Houston Chronicle 10-29-96 ------------- Drugs Regenerate Cells BALTIMORE - Scientists are encouraged by early studies that show drugs used in organ transplants can regenerate cells damaged by Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and related diseases of the nervous system. Test-tube experiments, as well as trials using rats and monkeys, are showing that modified versions of drugs such as FK506 and cyclosporin can help restore damaged nerve cells in the brain and nervous system, neuroscientist Solomon Snyder said Monday. "It's clearly something worth studying," said Snyder, a professor of neuroscience, pharmacology and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Bruce Gold, a pioneer in the field and professor at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, cautioned that it will be a while before the drugs are used in humans. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pardon my ignorance, but if these drugs are being used for organ transplant recipients aren't these humans? Its seems highly likely that some of the many organ recipients would be PWP and the drugs effects on PD could be evaluated. Ken Rowland :-)