Friedreich Ataxia Scientific News
Friedreich Ataxia and close related scientific news. Topics related to rare diseases.
Friday, September 2, 2011
PEP-1-Frataxin Significantly Increases Cell Proliferation and Neuroblast Differentiation by Reducing Lipid Peroxidation in the Mouse Dentate Gyrus.
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Neurochem Res. 2011 Sep 1, Kim W, Kim DW, Shin BN, Yoo DY, Nam SM, Kim MJ, Choi JH, Yoon YS, Won MH, Choi SY, Hwang IK. Department of An...
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Articulatory Kinematics in the Dysarthria Associated with Friedreich's Ataxia.
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Motor Control. 2011 Jul;15(3):376-89. Folker JE, Murdoch BE, Cahill LM, Rosen KM, Delatycki MB, Corben LA, Vogel AP. School of Health an...
Drug first to demonstrate neurological improvement in patients with Friedreich’s ataxia
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Website: USF HEALTH (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA) Preliminary trial findings shared with FARA-USF research symposium participants "...
Friday, August 26, 2011
Human umbilical cord blood-derived mononuclear cell transplantation: case series of 30 subjects with Hereditary Ataxia
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Journal of Translational Medicine 2011, 9:65 doi:10.1186/1479-5876-9-65 OPEN ACCESS Wan-Zhang Yang1, Yun Zhang2, Fang Wu1, Min Zhang1, S...
The PPAR-gamma agonist pioglitazone modulates inflammation and induces neuroprotection in parkinsonian monkeys
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Journal of Neuroinflammation 2011, 8:91 doi:10.1186/1742-2094-8-91 OPEN ACCESS Christine R Swanson, Valerie Joers, Viktorya Bondarenko, ...
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Movement disorders in spinocerebellar ataxias
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Movement Disorders. doi: 10.1002/mds.23928 (Article first published online: 24 AUG 2011) Pedroso, J. L., Felicio, A. C., Braga-Neto, P. an...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
MDA has awarded a research grant to Des Richardson, professor and senior principal research fellow at the University of Sydney (Australia) to continued research into iron metabolism in Friedreich's ataxia (FA).
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The aim of Richardson's studies is to examine the role of altered iron metabolism in the cellular energy factories called mitochondria.
Dual role of the mitochondrial protein frataxin in astrocytic tumors
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Laboratory Investigation , (22 August 2011) | doi:10.1038/labinvest.2011.130 Elmar Kirches, Nadine Andrae, Aline Hoefer, Barbara Kehler, K...
MDA FUNDS UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA NEUROLOGIST EXPLORING LINK BETWEEN DIABETES AND FRIEDREICH’S ATAXIA
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TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 23, 2011–The Muscular Dystrophy Association has awarded neurology professor David Lynch, M.D., Ph.D., at University of P...
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias: the current state of affairs
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J Med Genet doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2011-100210 S Vermeer1, B P C van de Warrenburg2, M A A P Willemsen2, M Cluitmans1, H Scheffer1,3, B P K...
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