[Disease-Modifying Therapy for Parkinson's Disease].

Currently, treatment of Parkinson's disease aims at alleviating its symptoms. However development of disease-modifying drugs has been a remarkable advancement in recent years. Furthermore, clinical trials of immunotherapy against α-synuclein, a protein involved in the pathogenesis of and lesion expansion in Parkinson's disease, have been initiated. Here, the disease-modifying treatment for patients with Parkinson's disease including the current α-synuclein immunotherapy, gene therapy, protein injection therapy, and cell transplantation therapy, has been reviewed.