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New Noninvasive Tool Helps Target Parkinson’s Disease

By Guest PostNovember 22, 2012Healthbrain, chemical, control, detection methodology, diagnosing, disease, disorder, dopamine, early detection, early symptom, early testing, jaw, method, movement pattern, muscle function, muscle movement, nerve cells, neurological disorder, noninvasive, parkinsons disease, progression, rahul shrivastav, speech patterns, telemedicine application, tongue, treatment, united states

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Health professionals may soon have a new method of diagnosing Parkinson’s disease, one that is noninvasive and inexpensive, and, in early testing, has proved to be effective more than 90 percent of the time.

In addition, this new method has the potential to track the progression of Parkinson’s, as well as measure the effectiveness of treatments for the disorder, said Rahul Shrivastav, professor and chairperson of Michigan State University’s Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders and a member of the team developing the new method.

It involves monitoring a patient’s speech patterns – specifically, movement patterns of the tongue and jaw. (more…)

Stem Cell Transplants in Mice Produce Lifelong Enhancement of Muscle Mass

A University of Colorado at Boulder-led study shows that specific types of stem cells transplanted into the leg muscles of mice prevented the loss of muscle function and mass that normally occurs with aging, a finding with potential uses in treating humans with chronic, degenerative muscle diseases.

The experiments showed that when young host mice with limb muscle injuries were injected with muscle stem cells from young donor mice, the cells not only repaired the injury within days, they caused the treated muscle to double in mass and sustain itself through the lifetime of the transplanted mice. “This was a very exciting and unexpected result,” said Professor Bradley Olwin of CU-Boulder’s molecular, cellular and developmental biology department, the study’s corresponding author. (more…)

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New Noninvasive Tool Helps Target Parkinson’s Disease

Stem Cell Transplants in Mice Produce Lifelong Enhancement of Muscle Mass