I am trying to drum up interest in a Nilotinib group buy.
It occurred to me that I am not well known in the Brain Health sub-forum and that people here may be more interested:
"This drug, in very low doses, turns on the garbage disposal machinery inside neurons to clear toxic proteins from the cell. By clearing intracellular proteins, the drug prevents their accumulation in pathological inclusions called Lewy bodies and/or tangles, and also prevents amyloid secretion into the extracellular space between neurons, so proteins do not form toxic clumps or plaques in the brain,” says the study’s senior investigator, neuroscientist Charbel E-H Moussa, MB, PhD...
...Nilotinib "offers a unique and exciting strategy to treat neurodegenerative diseases that feature abnormal buildup of proteins in Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia, Huntington's disease and Lewy body dementia, among others."
http://explore.georg.../news/?ID=70332
Nilotinib increases endogenous parkin levels, boosting autophagy.
Parkin is also selectively recruited to impaired mitochondria and promotes their autophagy.
This makes it interesting for longevity in general IMHO.
http://www.ncbi.nlm....les/PMC3975659/
http://www.ncbi.nlm....les/PMC2592826/
So if you know anyone with:
- Parkinson’s disease
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Frontotemporal Dementia
- Huntington's disease
- Lewy body dementia
- etc
See the group buy thread here:
http://www.longecity...roup-buy/page-2