The Immune System May Protect Against Alzheimer’s Changes In Humans

<p>Main Category: Alzheimers / Dementia
Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines
Article Date: 29 May 2012 0:00 PDT</p>

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<p>Recent work in mice suggested that a defence complement is concerned in stealing beta-amyloid, a categorical Alzheimers-causing piece in a brain. Researchers have now shown for a initial time that this might request in humans.</p>

<p>Researchers during a Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Exeter with colleagues in a National Institute on Aging in a USA and in Italy screened a countenance levels of thousands of genes in blood samples from scarcely 700 people. The revealing pen of defence complement activity opposite beta-amyloid, a gene called CCR2, emerged as a tip pen compared with memory in people.</p>

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