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Agopuntura e morbo di Parkinson

I risultati negli animali da esperimento hanno dimostrato che l’Agopuntura è una terapia neuroprotettiva che aumenta vari agenti neuroprotettivi come il fattore neutrofico cerebrale, il fattore neurotrofico gliale e la ciclofillina A.Inoltre l’agopuntura diminuisce i processi di morte cellulare e attenua lo stress ossidativo ai neruroni dopaminergici della “sostanza nigra”.
I risultati suggeriscono che l’applicazione precoce della Agopuntura al morbo di Parkinson può aiutare l’efficacia del trattamento.
Neurol Res. 2010 Feb;32 Suppl 1:5-9.

Recent development of acupuncture on Parkinson’s disease. Joh THPark HJKim SNLee H.Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA.

OBJECTIVES:

Parkinson’s disease is a complex disease with multiple etiological factors involved in disease pathogenesis, and the molecular and cellular pathways for neurodegeneration are still elusive.

METHODS:

We reviewed all the relevant laboratory findings regarding acupuncture mechanism on Parkinson’s disease.

RESULTS:

Acupuncture treatments in animal experiments have generated valuable mechanistic insights of Parkinson’s disease and shown that acupuncture therapy is in fact a neuroprotective therapy which increases various neuroprotective agents such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor, glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor and cyclophilin A. In addition, acupuncture therapy decreases cell death processes and attenuates oxidative stress to substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons.

DISCUSSION:

These results suggest that early application of acupuncture therapy for Parkinson’s disease patients may be helpful for the best efficacy of acupuncture treatment.