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Is Parkinson’s an Autoimmune Disease?

Attack by Own Immune System May Kill Neurons in Parkinson’s Disease

Released: 4/17/2014 2:25 PM EDT
Source Newsroom: Columbia University Medical Center

Citations Nature Communications, April 16, 2014


Newswise — NEW YORK, NY (April 16, 2014) — The cause of neuronal death in Parkinson’s disease is still unknown, but a new study proposes that neurons may be mistaken for foreign invaders and killed by the person’s own immune system, similar to the way autoimmune diseases like type I diabetes, celiac disease, and multiple sclerosis attack the body’s cells. The study was published April 16, 2014, in Nature Communications

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