Animal model opens way to test Alzheimer’s disease therapies

Animal model opens way to test Alzheimer's disease therapies
Inflammatory cells (red and green) flood into part of the brain where neurons are affected by misfolded tau protein (orange). This model in rhesus macaque monkeys shows similarities to development of Alzheimer’s disease in humans and could open up ways to test new treatments. Credit: Danielle Beckman, UC Davis/CNPRC

Our knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease has grown rapidly in the past few decades but it has proven difficult to translate fundamental discoveries about the disease into new treatments. Now researchers at the California National Primate Research Center at the University of California, Davis, have developed a model of the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease in rhesus macaques. The macaque model, published March 18 in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the…

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