Researchers at the North Shore-LIJ-run Feinstein Institute have discovered that a protein linked to leukemia is also important to understanding Alzheimer’s disease, which may soon lead to an Alzheimer’s drug based on one used to treat the blood cancer.“A number of things have suggested to us that…
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Researchers have discovered that the genetic mechanism which destroys brain cells is responsible for early development of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome and for development of Alzheimer’s disease in general population — providing a potential new target for drugs that could forestall dementia in people with either condition.
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Scientists have discovered that hyperploid neurons, which have greater than the normal number of chromosomes, are more prone to cell death in Alzheimer’s disease.
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Alzheimer’s Disease: Some Cells More Prone to Death
FRIDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — U.S. researchers have discovered a new form of prion disease that doesn’t act like related illnesses, such as mad cow disease, but instead causes brain damage similar to that produced by Alzheimer’s disease.
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Researchers in the USA have discovered a potential new function for anti-epileptic drugs in treating neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
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