An antibody that can almost completely clear the visible signs of Alzheimer’s disease from the brain has been discovered in a breakthrough that left one scientist “trying not to get too excited”.
Researchers scanned the brains of people with the degenerative condition as they were given doses of the drug, which is based on an immune cell taken from the blood of elderly people aged up to 100 who showed no signs of the disease.
After a year, virtually all the toxic “amyloid plaques” that build up in Alzheimer’s patients appeared to have gone from the brains of those given the highest doses of the antibody.
The scientists, who described their results in a paper in the journal Nature, also said the patients showed signs that the rate of their cognitive decline had slowed.
Be great if this does follow through on its promise.
The article points to 7 risk factors
I was extremely surprised to see no mention of contact sport or alcohol....
Good news at last Di but nothing for vascular damage as yet.
ReplyDeleteYou are right Paul and to be honest I have seen other research that shows promise but nothing seems to come of it. Just keep our fingers crossed.
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