Blocking inflammation prevents cell death, improves memory in Alzheimer’s
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - 11:40
in Health & Medicine
Using a drug compound created to treat cancer, University of California, Irvine neurobiologists have disarmed the brain’s response to the distinctive beta-amyloid plaques that are the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. Kim Green and colleagues with UCI’s Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders found that flushing away the abundant inflammatory cells produced in reaction to […]