> <<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
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> 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.
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> 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 :-)>>
>
The important word in this article is modified- they are not the
original previously tested and considered 'safe' drugs that are currently used
in organ transplants. Secondly they plan on being used for a different
treatment whereby less severe side effects maybe tolerated.
