News tagged with amyloid disease
Simulating amyloid formation
Many neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by proteins that assume an abnormal configuration, which leads to their aggregation and deposition in and around rve cells, causing cell death. This process, ...
May 04, 2011 |
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Asthma drug could help control or treat Alzheimer's disease
A drug used to treat asthma has been shown to help reduce the formation of amyloid beta, a peptide in the brain that is implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease, according to researchers at Temple University's ...
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Mar 25, 2011 |
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Chemists make discovery that may lead to drug treatment possibilities for Alzheimer's
UC Santa Barbara scientists have made a discovery that has the potential for use in the early diagnosis and eventual treatment of plaque-related diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Type 2 diabetes. Their ...
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Pulmonary fibrosis inhibited by pentraxin-2/SAP in research study
Promedior, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing novel therapies to treat fibrotic and inflammatory diseases, announced today the publication of collaborative research in the International Journal of Bi ...
Feb 10, 2011 |
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New test to study proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases
Researchers from the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine and the UAB Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Spain) have developed and patented a method using Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast to detect in hum ...
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Feb 01, 2011 |
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Study identifies new therapies for prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease
A Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute (BRNI) study published today in the Journal of Neuroscience reveals underlying causes for the degeneration of synapses in Alzheimer's Disease and identifies promising pharma ...
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Jan 12, 2011 |
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Case study on Alzheimer's disease looks at progression before and after death
A case study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet sheds light on the pathological course of Alzheimer's disease. The brain of the first Alzheimer's patient to display amyloids demonstrable with a PET ...
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Dec 14, 2010 |
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Study of cerebrospinal fluid reveals potential new Alzheimer's gene
A genomic study of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has added a new gene to the list of potential genetic contributors to Alzheimer's disease, a national research team led by Indiana University School of Medicine ...
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Dec 14, 2010 |
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Unraveling Alzheimer's: Simple small molecules could untangle complex disease
(PhysOrg.com) -- New molecular tools developed at the University of Michigan show promise for "cleansing" the brain of amyloid plaques, implicated in Alzheimer's disease.
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Dec 08, 2010 |
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Gene therapy prevents memory problems in mice with Alzheimer's disease
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) in San Francisco have discovered a new strategy to prevent memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Humans with AD and mice genetically ...
Nov 28, 2010 |
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Scientists identify one cause of damage in Alzheimer's disease, find a way to stop it
Researchers suspect that a protein superstructure called amyloid beta is responsible for much of the neural damage of Alzheimer's disease.
Nov 09, 2010 |
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Peripheral induction of Alzheimer's-like brain pathology in mice
Pathological protein deposits linked to Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy can be triggered not only by the administration of pathogenic misfolded protein fragments directly into the brain but also by peripheral ...
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Oct 21, 2010 |
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Increased brain protein levels linked to Alzheimer's
(PhysOrg.com) -- Elevated levels of a growth protein in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients is linked to impaired neurogenesis, the process by which new neurons are generated, say researchers at the University of California, ...
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Sep 16, 2010 |
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Function found for Alzheimer's protein
In people with Alzheimer's, the brain becomes riddled with clumps of protein, forming what are known as amyloid plaques. Now, a report appearing in the September 17th print issue of Cell appears to have found a function for th ...
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Sep 10, 2010 |
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Compounds fend off Alzheimer's disease amyloid pathology
A team of scientists, led by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers, has synthesized hundreds of new compounds with the potential of reducing the production of the A-beta 42 peptide, a primary ...
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Sep 08, 2010 |
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