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There is currently no known cure for any of these invariably fatal conditions. A useful resource with regards to the topic of neurodegeneration can be accessed by clicking here. This contains a number of informative PowerPoint presentations.
CJD Alliance firmly believe that much can be learned from disciplines and approaches being taken from other more common conditions out with that of CJD.
As such, Science Commons, NeuroCommons and of course, Creative Commons come to our minds.
Let's build on the Past.
The three main stages in developing therapies are generally:
1) In-Vitro (test tube, cell cultures)
2) In-Vivo (within a living
organism/animal)
3) Clinical
Trials/Use in Humans
A resource in this (treatment issues) regard can be found on the website of the UK’s National CJD Surveillance Unit’s (NCJDSU) website
After 18 months of waiting, also see this Paper published March 2008 by Prof Ian Bone in the European Journal of Neurology and also now this Editorial in the same Journal.
For some background, see for example Turnbull et al 2002
Some
further resource material can be found on the following web pages:
Nature Insight: Glycochemistry & Glycobiology
Protein Misfolding
Slow Virus Diseases Of
The Nervous System
BSE Inquiry
– Diagnosis and therapy
Prion Related
Diseases - Medication
Treatment
of TSE’s – Journal of Virology
Nebraska Center
for Virology
Royal
Society of Chemistry – “Battle with the Prions”
National
Academy of Sciences - Protein Folding Study
National
Academy of Sciences - Drug induces nerves to repair themselves
Nature Insight –
Protein Folding