Scientists eliminate key Alzheimer’s feature in animal model

UTSW scientists eliminate key Alzheimer’s feature in animal model: Newsroom
Amyloid beta plaques and tau in the brain. Credit: National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health

A study by UT Southwestern researchers finds that changing the biochemistry of parts of brain cells abolished the formation of amyloid beta plaques in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. The finding, published in eLife, might eventually lead to treatments that prevent the memory-robbing condition in humans.

“We envision that drugs that act on the same protein we inhibited in these mice could someday play a similar role in Alzheimer’s disease as statins do in , helping to prevent the condition from ever developing,” said Joachim Herz, M.D.,…

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