title: Therapeutic strategies for Parkinson's disease: the ancient meets the future--traditional Chinese herbal medicine, electroacupuncture, gene therapy and stem cells.
abstract: In China, it has been estimated that there are more than 2.0 million people suffering from Parkinson's disease, which is currently becoming one of the most common chronic neurodegenerative disorders during recent years. For many years, scientists have struggled to find new therapeutic approaches for this disease. Since 1994, our research group led by Drs. Ji-Sheng Han and Xiao-Min Wang of Neuroscience Research Institute, Peking University has developed several prospective treatment strategies for the disease. These studies cover the traditional Chinese medicine-herbal formula or acupuncture, and modern technologies such as gene therapy or stem cell replacement therapy, and have achieved some original results. It hopes that these data may be beneficial for the research development and for the future clinical utility for treatment of Parkinson's disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Capital Medical University, Key Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Disorders of the Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100069, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xi-Bin
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Feng-Qiao
authors.initials: FQ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Hui-Fang
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Xian-Yu
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jian-Jun
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiao-Min
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004224:Diterpenes / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015671:Electroacupuncture; D004852:Epoxy Compounds / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015316:Genetic Therapy; D005968:Glutamate Decarboxylase / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D010616:Phenanthrenes / Q000627:therapeutic use; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation
chemical_list: D004224:Diterpenes; D004852:Epoxy Compounds; D010616:Phenanthrenes; C001899:triptolide; D005968:Glutamate Decarboxylase