Japan university’s clinical tests to use Parkinson’s drug for ALS

TOKYO - A Keio University research team will begin clinical tests for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), administering ALS patients an existing drug used for another disease, which is confirmed to be effective in experiments with induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. The researchers conducted experiments using iPS cells created from the cells of people with ALS. Existing drugs were used on the iPS cells and researchers found that a drug to treat Parkinson's disease was effective for treating ALS. With the use of an existing drug, the expectation is that the treatment can be prompt, the researchers said. Planned clinical tests will be conducted on 20 people...

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