Researchers Develop Novel Antibodies To Diagnose And Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

Main Category: Alzheimers / Dementia
Article Date: 02 Apr 2012 0:00 PDT

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Under normal circumstances, a tau protein is a industrious member in memory and normal mind functioning. But as is apropos increasingly evident, in Alzheimers illness and other neurodegenerative diseases, tau not usually ceases to play a prolific purpose in mind health, though indeed undergoes a Jekyll-and-Hyde mutation to turn a little knave that destroys mind cells.

Now a novel antibody record grown by a systematic organisation during Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) provides a initial transparent eminence between dual tau isoforms one healthy and one disease-causing and demonstrates that usually a disease-causing isoform is found in a neurons of Alzheimers patients and is exhibited during a really early theatre of disease. Described in a Mar 30, 2012...