Possible dementia vaccine closer after mice studies

Possible dementia vaccine closer after mice studies
Flinders University Professor of Medicine Nikolai Petrovsky, who founded Vaxine Pty Ltd, a company funded by the US National Institutes of Health to develop novel vaccine technologies. Credit: Flinders University

A preventive treatment for dementia may proceed to clinical trials after successful animal testing.

The US-led research is looking to develop effective immunotherapy via a new vaccine to remove ‘brain plaque’ and tau protein aggregates linked to Alzheimer’s disease.

Recent success in bigenic mice models supports progression to in years to come, the researchers say.

A new paper in the journal Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy paves the way for more work in 2020, with medical…

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