Category Archives: Research

Alzheimer research moving to humans

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At present, the analysis of tau proteins, one of the most active areas of Alzheimer’s research, often requires the use of hundreds of animals, is time consuming and expensive and can produce results that may not translate beneficially to humans.

The Aston Center for Healthy aging’s impending study will develop a research method based upon testing human stem cells instead of transgenic mice. It is hoped this new procedure will help scientists predict with greater accuracy the effectiveness of the latest drugs intended to combat the onset of Alzheimer’s.

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DDT and Alzheimer

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Jason Richardson, an associate professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, said their research indicates DDT may be responsible for causing plaques to form in brain cells through its harmful byproduct dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene, or DDE.

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20 Years before Alzheimer symptoms show.

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Alzheimer; News from the web: via Science Daily

According to current understanding, Alzheimer’s disease develops slowly and it may take up to 20 years before the first obvious symptoms occur. With the development of early diagnostics of the disease, the question of which treatments to offer to completely healthy people with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s becomes of key importance in the field of medicine. Various dietary treatments seem a promising alternative.

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Did we find an effective Alzheimer drug?

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Unfortunately not. Here the sad story about another two drugs that have failed in the trials.

Both bapineuzumab and solanezumab did not improve patients’ ability to think and solve problems, according to findings published in the Jan. 23 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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