Washington – A compound found in the gut of the sharks, the squalamine, could become the basis for a drug against Parkinson’s disease. This is shown by a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) entitled “A natural product inhibits the initiation of α-synuclein aggregation and suppresses its toxicity”, edited by an international team which includes researchers from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Experimental and Clinics of the University of Florence. (9colonne)
