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SUBMITTER: Gualerzi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10816807 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gualerzi Alice A Picciolini Silvia S Bedoni Marzia M Guerini Franca Rosa FR Clerici Mario M Agliardi Cristina C
International journal of molecular sciences 20240117 2
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting about 10 million people worldwide with a prevalence of about 2% in the over-80 population. The disease brings in also a huge annual economic burden, recently estimated by the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to be USD 52 billion in the United States alone. Currently, no effective cure exists, but available PD medical treatments are based on symptomatic prescriptions that include drugs, surgical approaches and reh ...[more]