Two
types of neurons die.
Not exact matches
But as people get older, certain
neurons die and there is reduced capacity, so these
types of drugs may help.»
The same treatment killed many other
types of neurons, including both the spinal motor
neurons that
die in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and the human dopaminergic
neurons whose mysterious loss is the cause
of Parkinson's disease.
Barcelona, studies the process by which stem cells turn into
neurons, the
type of brain cells that malfunction and
die in HD.
This work is based on his previous research showing that a specific
type of neuron that
dies in Parkinson's disease is more vulnerable to problems in mitochondrial fission.