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Fac Med, Lab Pharmacol Expt & Clin, F-35043 Rennes, FranceUniv Paris Sud, INSERM, U788, Fac Med,UMR S788, F-94276 Le Kremlin Bicetre, France
Allain, Herve
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Bentue-Ferrer, Daniele
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Fac Med, Lab Pharmacol Expt & Clin, F-35043 Rennes, FranceUniv Paris Sud, INSERM, U788, Fac Med,UMR S788, F-94276 Le Kremlin Bicetre, France
Bentue-Ferrer, Daniele
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Akwa, Yvette
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Univ Paris Sud, INSERM, U788, Fac Med,UMR S788, F-94276 Le Kremlin Bicetre, FranceUniv Paris Sud, INSERM, U788, Fac Med,UMR S788, F-94276 Le Kremlin Bicetre, France
Akwa, Yvette
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[1] Univ Paris Sud, INSERM, U788, Fac Med,UMR S788, F-94276 Le Kremlin Bicetre, France
[2] Fac Med, Lab Pharmacol Expt & Clin, F-35043 Rennes, France
Symptomatic medications, L-Dopa and dopaminergic agents, remain the only clinically pertinent pharmacological treatment proven effective and available for the large population of patients with Parkinson's disease. The challenge for the pharmaceutical industry is to develop disease-modifying drugs which could arrest, delay or at least oppose the progression of the specific pathogenic processes underlying Parkinson's disease. The purpose of this review, based on recent biological and genetic data to be validated with appropriate animal models, was to re-examine the putative neuroprotective agents in Parkinson's disease and discuss the development of new strategies with the ultimate goal of demonstrating neurocytoprotective activity in this neurodegenerative disease. Since guidelines for research on neurocytoprotective drugs remain to be written, innovation will be the key to success of future clinical trials. It is reasonable to expect that future advances in our understanding of the pathogenic processes of Parkinson's disease will open the way to new perspectives for the treatment of other neurodegenerative diseases. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.