Researchers with the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute at UT Southwestern have identified a new protein implicated in cell death that provides a potential therapeutic target that could prevent or delay the progress of neurodegenerative ...
Apr 27, 2021
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have studied the incidence and regional distribution of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in the brains of people with Down's syndrome. The results can bring new possibilities for ...
Nov 23, 2020
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New research from the University of Eastern Finland explores the role of diabetes in the cellular and molecular changes underlying Alzheimer's disease (AD). In an AD mouse model, diabetes induced through a diet rich in fats ...
Nov 18, 2020
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A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland found that the PLCG2-P522R genetic variant, which protects against Alzheimer's disease, enhances several key functions of immune cells. The results ...
Sep 25, 2020
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A study led by the Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB) shows that APOE4, the principal genetic risk factor for the most common type of Alzheimer's disease, produces an alteration in the astrocytes' signaling mechanisms in ...
Jun 23, 2020
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More than a decade before people with Huntington's disease show symptoms, they can exhibit abnormally high levels of an immune-system molecule called interleukin-6 (IL-6), which has led many researchers to suspect IL-6 of ...
May 26, 2020
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Like pieces of tape that crumple, stick together, and can be turned into a ball, proteins that begin to lose their shape become sticky and tend to clump together. When this happens, rather than being transported to recycling ...
Jan 22, 2020
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A single injection of a new treatment has reduced the activity of the gene responsible for Huntington's disease for several months in a trial in mice.
Sep 9, 2016
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Researchers at the Babraham Institute have found a way to replicate one of the earliest changes in Alzheimer's disease in a dish. This means that it should now be possible to find out a lot more about why it happens - and ...
Jun 14, 2016
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An innovative tool allows researchers to observe protein aggregation throughout the life of a worm. The development of these aggregates, which play a role in the onset of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, can now be ...
Feb 15, 2016
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