Mouse Studies Suggest Protective Effects of Caffeine in Parkinson’s Disease
Marisa Wexler
Marisa Wexler
Quote:Two new studies in mice suggest that caffeine might have protective effects in the brains of Parkinson’s disease patients.
The studies, “Chronic Caffeine Treatment Modulates Disease Progression in a Transgenic Alpha-Synuclein Prion-Like Spreading Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease,” and “Chronic Caffeine Treatment Reverses A-Synuclein-Induced Cognitive Impairment With Enhanced Dendritic Spine Density and Morphology in Mice,” will be presented during the 14th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases and related neurological disorders, March 26-31 in Lisbon, Portugal.
Previous epidemiological studies have suggested that consuming caffeine might protect against the development of Parkinson’s. These more-recent studies set out to test this premise more directly in an animal model.
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- Bertrand Russell