A method of preventing weakness in a patient with Parkinson's disease or of improving or restoring muscle strength of a patient with Parkinson's disease, comprising the step of administering to said patient an amount of one or more hepatocyte growth factor mimics sufficient to prevent, improve or restore to normal said muscle strength, said one or more hepatocyte growth factor mimics having a general structural formula 1 2 3 where R] is one of an N-acyl group, a substituted or unsubstiruted phenyl, a norleucine group, and an amino acid selected from tyrosine, phenylalanine, aspartic acid, arginine, isoleucine, serine, histidine, glycine, cysteine, methionine, tryptophan, lysine norvaline, ornithine, and s-benzyl cysteine
Elsevier Science Ltd., 1999
As soon as you are medically stable often within 48 to 72 hours of surgery, or shortly after hospital discharge
It's not a single peptide but a strategic combination designed to work synergistically
Double-stranded and single-stranded RNA viruses of Saccharomyces cerevisiae