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Breakthrough technique maps toxic protein growth in Alzheimer's Disease
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Israeli and Dutch researchers have unveiled a new technique that allows scientists to precisely measure toxic protein clumps associated with Alzheimer's disease -- something that has long been out of reach and could open new paths for studying and eventually diagnosing dementia.
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Dementia study suggests how harmful proteins spread through brain
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
A recent study suggests that fresh insights into the spread of toxic proteins that collect in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may hold the key to slowing the disease's progression.
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Research: Alzheimer's development linked to cholesterol, toxic protein clu
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Texas A&M's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences researchers discovered that cholesterol significantly boosts the toxicity of a peptide linked to the advancement of Alzheimer's disease.
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Study finds development of Alzheimer's linked with cholesterol, toxic prot
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Researchers at Texas A&M's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences discovered that cholesterol significantly boosts the toxicity of a peptide linked to the advancement of Alzheimer's disease.
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Researchers find toxic protein linked to muscular dystrophy, arhinia
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues have found that a toxic protein made by the body called DUX4 may be the cause of two very different rare genetic disorders.
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Synthetic peptides may suppress formation of harmful amyloid aggregates
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In Alzheimer's disease, the degeneration of brain cells is linked to formation of toxic protein aggregates and deposits known as amyloid plaques. Similar processes play an important role also in type 2 diabetes. A research team under the lead of the Technical University of Munich has now dev
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Protecting the brain from dementia by inducing abnormal protein aggregates
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 2 (ANI): Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are defined by the pathogenic accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain. Now, however, scientists have established that the p62 protein, which is involved in cellular protein degradation, can prevent
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Neurodegenerative diseases can be prevented by deep sleep
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Illinois [US], January 23 (ANI): A new study has found that deep sleep has an ancient, restorative power to clear waste from the brain which potentially includes toxic proteins that may lead to neurodegenerative disease.
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Here's why Huntington's disease attacks brain cells in human
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 12 (ANI): Recent study conducted on mice has given more insight into how and why Huntington's disease attacks and destroys certain brain cells in human beings.
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Scientists develop synthetic peptide that could inhibit toxic aggregates i
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 21 (ANI): Researchers have developed synthetic peptides that could target and reduce toxic protein aggregates, which are supposed to cause Alzheimer's disease, a new study finds.
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Alzheimer's associated with defective brain cells spreading disease:
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb. 12 (ANI): A recent study suggests neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's may be linked to defective brain cells disposing toxic proteins that make neighboring cells sick.
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