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Draining Toxic Protein Amyloid-Beta To Halt Alzheimers

Scientists are trying a plumber’s approach to rid the brain of the amyloid buildup that plagues Alzheimer’s patients: Simply drain the toxic protein away. That’s the method outlined in a paper published online August 12 by Nature Medicine. Scientist ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2007 - 2:43pm - 0 attachments

Study: Overdoing Antioxidants Leads To Heart Failure In Mice

Reductants, sometimes referred to as antioxidants, are elements or compounds that easily give up an electron to become “oxidized,” while oxidizing agents readily accept electrons. In the body, such oxidation-reduction (redox) reactions are integral to t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2007 - 12:50pm - 0 attachments

UCLA Scientists Produce Functioning Neurons From Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Scientists with the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at UCLA were able to produce from human embryonic stem cells a highly pure, large quantity of functioning neurons that will allow them to create models of and study diseases such as Alzheim ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2007 - 10:20am - 0 attachments

Not All Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Are Created Equal

When it comes to generating neurons, researchers have found that not all embryonic stem (ES) cell lines are equal. In comparing neurons generated from two NIH-approved embryonic stem cell lines, scientists have uncovered significant differences in the m ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2007 - 5:53pm - 0 attachments

Why Three Times More Women Than Men Get Migraines

For every man with a migraine, three women are struck by the severe headaches that often come with nausea, sensitivity to light and sound, and aura. That means a staggering 18 to 25 percent of women suffer from migraines, making it one of the most commo ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2007 - 10:57am - 0 attachments

UCF Research Links Proteins, Stem Cells And Potential Alzheimer's Treatment

A team of scientists led by professor Kiminobu Sugaya at the University of Central Florida may have found a new way to treat Alzheimer’s disease. The team, which also included researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the National Ins ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2007 - 10:31am - 0 attachments

Exercise, Mental Stimulation Both Important For Aging Memory

... among the first to be affected both by normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. Thus, spatial memory is a good indicator of hippocampal ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2007 - 5:48pm - 0 attachments

Hereditary ALS Linked To Low Electric Charge In Cells

... underlie several other feared protein disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The discovery that charges play such a critical ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2007 - 10:06am - 0 attachments

Vision Is Processed Like Oscillating Waves, Says Researcher

Neuroscientists have long believed that vision is processed in the brain along circuits made up of neurons, similar to the way telephone signals are transferred through separate wires from one station to another. But scientists at Georgetown University ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2007 - 4:11pm - 0 attachments

TREX1 And Blood Vessel Breakdown

... the second-leading cause of these kinds of symptoms after Alzheimer's disease; in some Asian nations, it is the leading cause of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2007 - 10:46am - 0 attachments