Trichloroethylene and Parkinson disease.

Trichloroethylene was associated with a cluster of Parkinson's disease cases in 2008, and like MPTP and pesticides inhibits mitochondrial respiration. Parkinson's disease genes risk factors and pathways

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Anonymous said...

Greetings. I served at CLNC from Oct 81' to Jun 84'. Barracks was at HP 250. Work place was 2d Marine Regiment HQ at Blg.123 on Julian C. Smith Blvd.

Onset of Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease in 1996 at age 34. Wondering if any others here also have Parkinson's? -- especially Early Onset? You may be interested to

know of scientific studies linking trichloroethylene (TCE) exposure to Parkinson's. See below.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.22629/abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21803216
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20518596
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18157908
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.21288/abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19922440
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15206739
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10457397
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1496432