New understanding of Alzheimer's trigger
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
A highly toxic beta-amyloid – a protein that exists in the brains of Alzheimer's disease victims – has been found to greatly increase the toxicity of other more common and less toxic beta-amyloids, serving as a possible "trigger" for the advent and development of Alzheimer's, researchers have discovered.