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from the progress-against-a-nasty-disease dept.
https://news.ubc.ca/2017/10/31/alzheimers-disease-might-be-a-whole-body-problem/
Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of dementia, has long been assumed to originate in the brain but new research indicates that it could be triggered by breakdowns elsewhere in the body.
The findings, published today in Molecular Psychiatry [DOI: 10.1038/mp.2017.204] [DX], offer hope that future drug therapies might be able to stop or slow the disease without acting directly on the brain, which is a complex, sensitive and often hard-to-reach target. Instead, such drugs could target the kidney or liver, ridding the blood of a toxic protein [amyloid-β protein] before it ever reaches the brain.
"Alzheimer's disease is clearly a disease of the brain, but our research shows that we need to pay attention to the whole body to understand where it comes from, and how to stop it," said Dr. Weihong Song, UBC psychiatry professor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @06:29PM (1 child)
"offer hope that future drug therapies might be able to stop or slow the disease without acting directly on the brain, which is a complex, sensitive and often hard-to-reach target. Instead, such drugs could target the kidney or liver, ridding the blood of a toxic protein [amyloid-β protein] before it ever reaches the brain."
how about screw you? why don't you skanks just educate people on their lifelong habits(bad nutrition, etc) and pollutants that are causing the shit and we won't need your expensive, likely poisonous drugs. oh, actually fixing the problem isn't absurdly profitable? i wonder if selling doctors and drug chemists' forcibly harvested organs is profitable...
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday November 03 2017, @08:33PM
Oh Riiiiight.
Lets take your pet quasi-religious beliefs and substitute THOSE for actual science. That would be great [gstatic.com]
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