Colchicine as a promising drug for Parkinson's disease

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 150-

  Salama, Mohamed ^a   Arias Carrión, Oscar ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; DEATH RECEPTOR;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BEHCET DISEASE; CELL PROTECTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GOUT; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; SCLERODERMA;

COLCHICINE; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 78650176837     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.10.032     Document Type: Letter

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