A new link between pesticides and Parkinson's disease
Benoit I. Giasson
& Virginia M.-Y. Lee
The authors are in the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. vmylee@mail.med.upenn.edu or giassonb@mail.med.upenn.edu
Environmental factors are thought to be an important cause of Parkinson's disease. A new study shows that rats chronically treated with the mitochondrial inhibitor rotenone, a common pesticide, develop neuropathological and behavioral symptoms of Parkinsonism.
