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Parkinson's Discovery Suggests We Could Have an FDA-Approved Treatment Already

https://www.sciencealert.com/parkinsons-discovery-suggests-we-could-have-an-fda-approved-treatment-already

Researchers have discovered how a surface protein on brain cells, called Aplp1, can play a role in spreading material responsible for Parkinson's disease from cell to cell in the brain.

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Reviewed on 28 Jul 2025
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Although a decent overview, this article is very limited in its coverage and does little to balance the limitations. Although the paper does suggest anti-lag3 therapies could be viable targets in PD, it is a jump to say that an "FDA approved treatment already exists". The FDA drug in question "nivolumab/relatlimab", was not actually used in the original publication, instead a differing lag3 targeting antibody was used. However the article erroneously claims the nivoluman/relatlimab molecule was originally used. Limitations on the translatability of findings from mouse to human are not accounted for or mentioned.

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