China News Service, Lanzhou, September 19 (Reporter Nan Ru Zhuoma) The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Randy Shekman, said that Parkinson’s disease was at the “Cloud Conference” in Lanzhou, China on the 19th. Like the new crown pneumonia epidemic, it knows no borders. The number of patients is rising, affecting millions of people around the world. This requires the international community to cooperate in research and call on global scientists to cooperate in finding the cause and new treatment technologies.
On the same day, the fifth Lanzhou Science and Technology Achievements Expo opened.
Randy Shekman also shared his latest research progress on the causes of Parkinson's disease to experts and scholars at home and abroad.
In 1817, British doctor James Parkinson discovered a strange disease. Patients would unconsciously show hand tremor, slow movement, muscle stiffness, and severe cases also have symptoms of dementia, which is common in the elderly. The disease is named "Parkinson's disease".
"Among neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson's disease is the fastest-growing disease in the world." Randy Shekman said that the main pathology of the disease is the death of substantia nigra cells in the midbrain, leading to insufficient dopamine in related brain areas. However, the cause of Parkinson's disease is still unknown.
Randy Shekman emphasized that Parkinson's disease has been discovered for more than 200 years, but humans still know very little about it. Doctors can't do anything about it. This needs to arouse the attention of all mankind.
Randy Shekman shared the latest research progress of himself and his team and said that he has found 20 gene loci that may cause Parkinson's disease. He hopes to clarify the cause of this disease from the directions that may affect the development of neurons. .
"About 30% of Parkinson's disease suffers from dementia symptoms, which may be the result of the spread of Lewy bodies in the brain." He said that the achievement in the past ten years is the discovery of a genetic form of Parkinson's disease.
The meeting revealed that there are currently millions of Parkinson's disease patients in the world, and half of them are in China.
It is estimated that in the next ten years, China’s Parkinson’s disease patients will account for more than 50% of the world’s patients.
"If you are fortunate enough to meet you, I have a lot of clues to tell you, such as how the cells die, and the challenges of joining together to form a strategic offensive damage source." Randy Shekman said.
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