title: Pharmacological therapy in Parkinson's disease: focus on neuroprotection.
abstract: Although the number of available therapeutic approaches in Parkinson's disease (PD) is steadily increasing the search for effective neuroprotective agent is continuing. Such research is directed at influencing the key steps in the pathomechanism: the mitochondrial dysfunction, the oxidative stress, the neuroinflammatory processes and the final common apoptotic pathway. Earlier-developed symptomatic therapies were implicated to be neuroprotective, and promising novel disease modifying approaches were brought into the focus of interest. The current review presents a survey of our current knowledge relating to the pathomechanism of PD and discusses the putative neuroprotective therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Center, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
authors.forename: Zsigmond Tamas
authors.initials: ZT
authors.lastname: Kincses
authors.forename: Laszlo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vecsei
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000978:Antiparkinson Agents / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D018696:Neuroprotective Agents / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D018384:Oxidative Stress / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D000978:Antiparkinson Agents; D018696:Neuroprotective Agents