Early environmental exposure may accelerate age-related neurodegeneration



Exposure to iron during the first weeks of life in combination with
exposure later in life to a common herbicide may contribute to the
subsequent degeneration of brain cells associated with the onset of
Parkinson's disease (PD), according to a new study in mice. The
findings also showed that a compound that protects cells in the body
from damage from certain forms of oxygen, a kind of antioxidant, could
suppress such neural degeneration.....
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