by Sebastian Furness, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Our brain is an extremely complex and delicate organ. Our body fiercely protects it by holding onto things that help it and keeping harmful things out, such as bugs that can cause infection and toxins. It does that though a protective layer called the blood-brain barrier....
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Alzheimer’s brain barrier damage theory could pave way for new treatments
UNIVERSITY OF READING Alzheimer’s Disease could be caused by damage to a protective barrier in the body that allows fatty substances to build up in the brain, newly published research argues. A new explanation called the ‘Lipid Invasion Model’, argues that lipids entering the brain due to damage to the blood brain barrier – a dense...