US EditionKey Alzheimer’s Proteins Are Competing Inside Brain Cells
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Researchers at the University of California at Riverside propose an innovative approach to understanding the mechanisms that trigger cognitive impairment
Key Alzheimer’s proteins are competing inside brain cells
New UC Riverside-led research suggests Alzheimer’s arises not simply from plaques forming in the brain, as is widely believed, but from one protein interfering with the normal job of another. For decades, much Alzheimer’s research has focused on the idea that clumps of amyloid beta or a-beta proteins cause the disease. Genetic mutations that increase a-beta are known to trigger early onset Alzheimer’s, reinforcing this view. Yet thousands of c…
The deposits of the amyloid protein in the brain are characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. There are also indications that mitochondria, i.e. the energy suppliers of our cells, play an important role in the course of the disease. by CINDY HEMPP It is November 3, 1906, when Alois Alzheimer's is giving his lecture at the 37th Assembly of Südwestdeutscher Irrenärzte in Tübingen: "About a Strange [...] Der Beitrag Energiekrise im Hirn erschien zuer…
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