by Sarah Williams, Gladstone Institutes Tau pathology and its spread are significantly reduced after neuronal APOE4 removal. a, Representative images of p-tau staining with AT8 antibody in the hippocampus of 10-month-old PS19-fE4 and PS19-fE3 mice with and without Cre (scale bar, 500 µm). b, Quantification of the percent p-tau (AT8) coverage area in the hippocampus of 10-month-old PS19-fE4...
Tag: <span>Alzheimer’s protein</span>
Skin cancer cells use Alzheimer’s protein to sabotage brain’s immune defenses
by NYU Langone Health Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amyloid beta, a protein known to build-up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, also helps skin cancer cells thrive when they spread to the brain, a new study finds. Published online March 9 in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, the study...
Heart disease causes early brain dysfunction and can treble key Alzheimer’s protein
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD • Scientists have discovered that heart disease causes brain dysfunction that could lead to dementia before the buildup of plaque in blood vessels of the brain• Heart disease causes problems in the brain that causes less blood to reach the neurons that need it • Findings also show that a combination of...
Heart disease causes early brain dysfunction and can treble key Alzheimer’s protein
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD • Scientists have discovered that heart disease causes brain dysfunction that could lead to dementia before the buildup of plaque in blood vessels of the brain• Heart disease causes problems in the brain that causes less blood to reach the neurons that need it • Findings also show that a combination of...