New Alzheimer's Treatment Clears Plaques From Brains of Mice Within Hours

[douglas9]

Scientists have repaired a natural gateway into the brains of mice, allowing the clumps and tangles associated with Alzheimer's disease to be swept away.

After just three drug injections, mice with certain genes that mimic Alzheimer's showed a reversal of several key pathological features.

Within hours of the first injection, the animal brains showed a nearly 45 percent reduction in clumps of amyloid-beta plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.

The mice had previously shown signs of cognitive decline, but after all three doses, the animals performed on par with their healthy peers in spatial learning and memory tasks. The benefits lasted at least six months.

https://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimers-treatment-clears-plaques-from-brains-of-mice-within-hours

[multigraincracker]

1. My dad use to say "what ever kills you, they will

find a cure five years later”.
He was a great scientist.

[KS Toronado]

2. How long before RFK kills alzheimer research?

And tells us we just need more vitamin A?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. co-led by scientists at Inst. for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) & West China Hospital Sichuan Univ (WCHSU). . nt

international team of researchers, co-led by scientists at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the West China Hospital Sichuan University (WCHSU).

[karin_sj]

10. Thank goodness this research project isn't in the U.S.

[IronLionZion]

5. He'll recommend worms for every brain

the worm might be making the decisions

[Bengus81]

6. Any break through of anything will always be available for the rich

no matter what that idiot does.

[3Hotdogs]

8. My mom was a fan of articles, "What your Dr. doesn't want you to know...."

She made it to 98 so maybe she was on to something.

[KS Toronado]

13. My mom made it to 96

and she also questioned doctors and took a lot of over-the-counter vitamins & meds.

[dooner]

14. UCSF (University of California, San Francisco) just cut Alzheimer's Research

UCSF does a lot of medical research and clinical trials in Northern California. Research funding cuts were announced yesterday, including Alzheimer's research.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/ucsf-staff-cuts-deepen-threaten-drug-research-21098563.php

[NNadir]

3. I have worked with a scientific team addressing this disease as...

...an inflammatory syndrome, certainly related to the described mechanism.

This said the history of Alzheimer's treatments and theory are littered with false starts and even fraud, the famous Lesne case being the most famous, again involving mice, albeit with doctoring images of Western blots.

This is not to say this work is suspect; it may be very good, even a "breakthrough," to use that oft abused word, but it will need to be shown to be replicable in many labs to confirm the finding.

As science in this country is now subject to willful vandalism by ignoramuses, the prospect does not look promising.

[mucifer]

7. Yeah, it takes a while. We aren't mice. But, that's where we start.

[Fla Dem]

9. Very positive news!!!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. RFK's method for removing plaque from brains: Mental Floss.

in one ear, out the other, sawing motion, easy-peasey. Or, just use worms.

[RainCaster]

12. RFK Jr will advocate for eating road kill

Or the occasional dead whale found on a beach.