November 12, 2008
Parkinson’s disease causes and risk factors
The causes of Parkinson’s disease are not well understood. But it appears to result from several risk factors. Exposure to unknown environmental toxicants, toxic endogenous compounds, and genetic alterations are thougt as the risk factors of Parkinson’s disease.
Mitochondria and Oxidative Stress in Parkinson’s disease
Both mitochondria and oxidative stress play a crucial role [...]
In our daily life we don’t even think how we move our bodies. It just happens whenever we want it to. But in order to understand what happens to the body during Parkinson’s disease , it is quite useful to have some knowledge about how brain controls our movements, or in other words our “motor [...]