title: Chronic Intracerebral Delivery of Trophic Factors via a Programmable Pump as a Treatment for Parkinsonism.
abstract: The most common treatment for Parkinson's disease (PD) aims at pharmacologically augmenting striatal dopamine (DA) using the DA precursor levodopa. Such treatment provides symptomatic relief, but does not slow or halt continued degeneration of nigral dopaminergic neurons. Considerable effort has been devoted to the search for neurotrophic factors with survival-promoting activities on dopaminergic neurons that could potentially be of therapeutic value in the treatment of PD. One such candidate is glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF).
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grondin
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Elsberry
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Gerhardt
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Gash