Cognitive care using medicinal plant peptides

Cognitive care using medicinal plant peptides
“The research team extracted and isolated a set of ultra-stable cyclic peptides (or “cyclotides”) from the plant. They tested these peptides of ~30 residue length on the worms and recorded the impact on the neurons.” Credit: Neha V. Kalmankar

Most of us have heard of Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder marked by brain cell death and the shrinking of the brain. It is the most common cause of dementia and cognitive impairment, which typically have a devastating effect on a person’s quality of life. There is still no cure for Alzheimer’s.

One way of tackling the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is to prevent the underlying adverse changes in…

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