A Spanish Study Responds to Why Women Are More Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease
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The results reinforce the importance of considering sex as a biological variable to understand Alzheimer's and develop new therapeutic strategies
According to the Institute of Neurosciences, a mixed centre of the Miguel Hernández de Elche University (UMH) and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), it affects twice as many women as men, data that are largely explained by the increased life expectancy of women, although there is increasing evidence that biological mechanisms are also involved that increase women's vulnerability to developing the disease.
Now, a study led by the Institute of Neurosciences (IN), a mixed center of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Miguel Hernández de Elche University (UMH), identifies a pathway of the immune system, known as interferon signaling, that could contribute to this greater susceptibility. The results, published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation, open new perspectives for the development of future therapeutic strategies aimed at m…
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