{"id":212945,"date":"2025-05-01T05:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/skin-test-detects-neurodegenerative-disease-psp-with-high-accuracy"},"modified":"2025-05-01T05:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:18:53","slug":"skin-test-detects-neurodegenerative-disease-psp-with-high-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/skin-test-detects-neurodegenerative-disease-psp-with-high-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"Skin Test Detects Neurodegenerative Disease PSP with High Accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/skin-test-detects-neurodegenerative-disease-psp-with-high-accuracy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This could also have a negative impact on research since patients with PSP may be misdiagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease and be included in a trial that targets the wrong protein, influencing the results.<\/p>\n<p>The research that led to the PSP breakthrough has roots in an earlier study. In previous research, Martinez-Valbuena and his colleagues developed a test that could detect misfolded alpha synuclein protein in the skin in patients with Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have since validated that assay and hope it can be used in clinical trials, although the test is not yet available for clinical diagnoses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This could also have a negative impact on research since patients with PSP may be misdiagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease and be included in a trial that targets the wrong protein, influencing the results. The research that led to the PSP breakthrough has roots in an earlier study. In previous research, Martinez-Valbuena and his colleagues developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212945","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}