07.04.2010
DRESDEN SCIENTISTS CRACK THE DEVELOPMENT OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE CAUSED BY PESTICIDE
Francisco Pan-Montojo, a member of Prof. Richard Funk’s laboratory at the Institute of Anatomy (Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine, Dresden), has highlighted in animal models the mechanisms leading to the various phases of Parkinson’s disease as a result of the pesticide rotenone. Previously, most researchers assumed that the harmful substances unleashed their effect on the brain after entering via the bloodstream. Francisco Pan-Montojo’s research was conducted together with a group of scientists including Parkinson’s disease expert Prof. Heinz Reichmann, who is in charge of the Department of Neurology at Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital.