{"id":197157,"date":"2024-10-06T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T04:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-molecule-offers-hope-for-parkinsons-by-outperforming-l-dopa"},"modified":"2024-10-06T23:22:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T04:22:21","slug":"new-molecule-offers-hope-for-parkinsons-by-outperforming-l-dopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-molecule-offers-hope-for-parkinsons-by-outperforming-l-dopa","title":{"rendered":"New Molecule Offers Hope for Parkinson\u2019s by Outperforming L-Dopa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-molecule-offers-hope-for-parkinsons-by-outperforming-l-dopa2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>A new study has discovered that ophthalmic acid, a molecule in the brain, acts like a neurotransmitter to regulate motor function, similar to dopamine. In Parkinson\u2019s mouse models, this molecule improved movement for over 20 hours\u2014far longer than the effects of the current treatment, L-dopa.<\/p>\n<p>This finding challenges the long-held belief that dopamine is the only key player in motor control. Researchers are now exploring how to use ophthalmic acid as a potential treatment for movement disorders, offering hope for more effective therapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A new study has discovered that ophthalmic acid, a molecule in the brain, acts like a neurotransmitter to regulate motor function, similar to dopamine. In Parkinson\u2019s mouse models, this molecule improved movement for over 20 hours\u2014far longer than the effects of the current treatment, L-dopa. This finding challenges the long-held belief that dopamine is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}