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The study suggests that folinic acid, which is used in medications to treat bowel cancer, can also protect dying neurons associated with Parkinson’s disease in fruit flies.
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Folinic acid is already approved and used for applications in the clinic as an adjuvant during chemotherapy and can be administered orally, as a dietary supplement, or intravenously. Thus, the drug safety risk is low, and drug development for repurposing folinic acid as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease would be faster than for a novel drug.
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This page is a summary of: Folinic acid is neuroprotective in a fly model of Parkinson’s disease associated with pink1 mutations, Matters, March 2017, Sciencematters,
DOI: 10.19185/matters.201702000009.
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