New method shows potential for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

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In Alzheimer’s disease, a protein (peptide) forms clumps in the brain and causes sufferers to lose their memory. In a recently published article, a research group at Uppsala University described a new treatment method that increases the body’s own degradation of the building blocks that lead to these protein clumps.

In Alzheimer’s , the peptide amyloid-beta begins to form clumps in the . This process is called aggregation and the clumps so created are called aggregates. The treatment methods for Alzheimer’s disease that are currently in are attempts to bind to these disease-causing aggregates. But…

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