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SUBMITTER: Alvarez-Fischer D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3630120 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alvarez-Fischer Daniel D Noelker Carmen C Vulinović Franca F Grünewald Anne A Chevarin Caroline C Klein Christine C Oertel Wolfgang H WH Hirsch Etienne C EC Michel Patrick P PP Hartmann Andreas A
PloS one 20130418 4
Bee venom has recently been suggested to possess beneficial effects in the treatment of Parkinson disease (PD). For instance, it has been observed that bilateral acupoint stimulation of lower hind limbs with bee venom was protective in the acute 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) mouse model of PD. In particular, a specific component of bee venom, apamin, has previously been shown to have protective effects on dopaminergic neurons in vitro. However, no information regarding a po ...[more]