News tagged with sporadic alzheimer
Impaired energy metabolism linked with initiation of plaques in Alzheimer's brain
Scientists have identified an initiating molecular mechanism in sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD). The study, published by Cell Press in the December 26th issue of the journal Neuron, provides new information about genera ...
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Dec 24, 2008 |
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Bypassing stem cells, scientists make neurons directly from human skin
Researchers have come up with a recipe for making functional neurons directly from human skin cells, including those taken from patients with Alzheimer's disease. The new method may offer a critical short cut for generating ...
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Researchers link herpes to Alzheimer's disease
Laboratories at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Brown University, and House Ear Institute (HEI) have developed a new technique to observe herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1) infections growing inside cells. HSV1, the cause ...
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Apr 04, 2011 |
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Scientists create neurons with symptoms of Parkinson's disease from patient's skin cells
Neurons have been derived from the skin of a woman with a genetic form of Parkinson's disease and have been shown to replicate some key features of the condition in a dish, say researchers at the Stanford University School ...
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Brain changes in people at genetic risk for Alzheimer's revealed in MRI scans
People with a known, high risk for Alzheimer’s disease develop abnormal brain function even before the appearance of telltale amyloid plaques that are characteristic of the disease, according to a new ...
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Dec 15, 2010 |
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Study finds children with autism have mitochondrial dysfunction
Children with autism are far more likely to have deficits in their ability to produce cellular energy than are typically developing children, a new study by researchers at UC Davis has found. The study, published today in ...
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Nov 30, 2010 |
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Chronic high cholesterol diet produces brain damage
Research from the Laboratory of Psychiatry and Experimental Alzheimers Research at the Medical University Innsbruck (Austria) demonstrated that chronic high fat cholesterol diet in rats exhibited pathologies similar to Alzheimer's ...
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Nov 24, 2010 |
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New sporadic prion protein disease identified
A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be identified since Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ...
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Aug 13, 2010 |
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Rescuing fruit flies from Alzheimer's disease
Investigators have found that fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) males -- in which the activity of an Alzheimer's disease protein is reduced by 50 percent -- show impairments in learning and memory as they age. What's more, ...
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Jul 15, 2010 |
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Surgery linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
A new study spearheaded by Spanish scientists demonstrates a causal relationship between the onset of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), caused by a protein called a prion, and general surgery. CJD manifests ...
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Jul 08, 2010 |
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Understanding the Alzheimer's-Parkinson's link
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI researchers find the neurodegenerative combo of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases accelerates dementia.
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Jun 14, 2010 |
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