Doctors hail breakthrough in Parkinsons disease which means patients could walk again

Posted: Published on December 20th, 2014

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Researchers have shown in trials with rats that mobility can be restored despite the degenerative condition.

The experiments have not yet been caried out on humans but scientists say the results show a measurable and repeatable basis to fight Parkinsons disease.

The Mexican study, led by Jorge Aceves Ruiz, uses stem cells to generate a type of nerve cells known as dopaminergic.

They reactivate the production of dopamine, which promotes movement, in the brain of rats with symptoms of Parkinsons disease.

Our treatment has allowed us to recover these motor impairments

Jorge Aceves Ruiz

The ailment is a major degenerative disease of the bodys motor system.

About 127,000 people in Britain suffer the illness.

Doctor Ruiz, of the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies in Mexico City said: Our treatment has allowed us to recover these motor impairments.

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