• The pathological potential of human astroglia in Alzheimer's disease (AD) was analysed in vitro using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology. (nature.com)
  • Could Aspirin Help Prevent Cell Death in Alzheimer's and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases? (neurosciencenews.com)
  • A breakdown product of aspirin blocks cell death associated with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • related image taken by the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars) 9 January - Researchers at King's College London report a way of using an Alzheimer's drug to stimulate the renewal of living stem cells in tooth pulp. (wikipedia.org)
  • Taken together, enhancer abnormalities that promote plaques, tangles and cell cycle reactivation appear to be paving the way for brain cell death in Alzheimer's disease. (epigenie.com)
  • Alzheimer's is connected to brain cell death. (nutrivene.com)
  • Alzheimer's is connected to brain cell death , though the extent of this relationship still remains a mystery, according to the Mayo Clinic. (nutrivene.com)
  • She discovered that with Alzheimer's disease, certain brain cells may have difficulty utilizing glucose (made from the carbohydrates we eat), the brain's principal source of energy. (anh-usa.org)
  • With Alzheimer's, brain cells die, eventually leading to the patient's death. (cednc.org)
  • Alzheimer's is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States. (nursenextdoor.com)
  • Like all types of dementia, Alzheimer's is caused by brain cell death. (nursenextdoor.com)
  • The total size of the brain shrinks with the onset of Alzheimer's, and as a result, the tissue has progressively fewer nerve cells and connections. (nursenextdoor.com)
  • One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the accumulation of amyloid plaques (abnormally configured proteins) between nerve cells (neurons) in the brain. (brightfocus.org)
  • In Alzheimer's disease proteins clump together to long fibrils causing the death of nerve cells. (tum.de)
  • This also includes the potentially disease-causing proteins that collect in the cells of patients with neurodegenerative disorders - for example, beta amyloids that agglomerate to form long fibrils in the nerve cells of Alzheimer's patients. (tum.de)
  • Because of Alzheimer's interest in her case, his former boss sent him the patient's medical files and samples of her brain tissue after her death. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Many scientists believe there is a link between the release of free radicals within the body and early changes to brain cells in people who ultimately go on to develop Alzheimer's disease. (confectionerynews.com)
  • Accumulation of tau protein is typically associated with progression of Alzheimer's disease, as it leads to neuron death. (prohealth.com)
  • A hallmark of Alzheimer's disease is the accumulation of tau protein in neurons, which leads to their death. (prohealth.com)
  • A buildup of amyloid plaques may lead to the death of nerve cells (neurons) and the progressive signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Alzheimer's disease involves the shrinkage of frontal or temporal lobes and nerve cell death in several areas of the brain. (advertiser.ie)
  • In Alzheimer's patients, tau protein builds up in brain cells, leading to cell damage and death. (sflorg.com)
  • Given increasing interest among the research community in regards to nondrug approaches for Alzheimer's disease, HBOT may be worth pursuing in larger, well-controlled, longer-term studies to determine if it can not only improve cognition, but possibly alter the underlying biological processes that cause brain cell death," Edelmayer added. (medscape.com)
  • By transplanting neuronal precursor cells into the brains of mice, researchers have managed to reverse the learning and memory deficits in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and thus restore normal cognitive function. (iflscience.com)
  • The study not only not only suggests a novel way to investigate how learning and memory is affected by certain diseases, but also raises the possibility that cell replacement therapy could be used to treat Alzheimer's in the future. (iflscience.com)
  • The most cutting-edge research suggests that Alzheimer's may stem from an inability of the brain to process glucose, leading to cell death. (oneradionetwork.com)
  • But aducanumab's only target is the plaques, meaning other aspects of Alzheimer's (such as neuroinflammation, or the death of brain cells ) remain unchanged. (theconversation.com)
  • Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease associated with massive neuronal cell death during its pathology. (lu.se)
  • The majority of deaths are caused by chronic con- ditions such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease. (cdc.gov)
  • When Dr. Alois Alzheimer presented his initial findings on Alzheimer disease in 1906, his colleagues were less than impressed. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • It was first recorded in 1907 by Dr Alois Alzheimer who reported the case of Auguste Deter, a middle-aged woman with dementia and specific changes in her brain. (wellbeing.com.au)
  • The amyloid hypothesis can be traced to Dr. Alois Alzheimer , a pathologist who first described the disease that would bear his name in 1906. (upr.org)
  • Under oxidative stress-an excess of free radicals and other reactive compounds-GAPDH is modified and then enters the nucleus of neurons, where it enhances protein turnover, leading to cell death. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • However, while CpH methylation decreases later in life, this process is accelerated in AD and reactivates the cell cycle in differentiated post-mitotic neurons and triggers apoptosis rather than encouraging proliferation. (epigenie.com)
  • It is a progressive, irreversible, and incurable neurodegenerative disorder that disrupts the synaptic communication between millions of neurons, resulting in neuronal death and functional loss due to the abnormal accumulation of two naturally occurring proteins, amyloid β (Aβ) and tau. (frontiersin.org)
  • The tau protein is predominantly found in brain cells (neurons). (brightfocus.org)
  • The healthy human brain contains tens of billions of neurons, or brain cells, that send messages between different parts of the brain, and from the brain to the muscles and organs of the body. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Toxic changes in the brain, such as the clumps and tangles of protein that Dr. Alzheimer first saw in his late patient's brain, disrupt the communication between neurons, ultimately resulting in their loss of function and death. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • These protein bundles disrupt the communication between brain cells, and can eventually kill the neurons. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • By disrupting the nutrient supply in neurons, tangles ultimately lead to neuronal cell death. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • In neurodegenerative diseases, amyloids cause damage and death of neurons. (unibas.ch)
  • Neurons are extremely interesting cells because genetic information and most of the synthetic machinery is located in one region of the cell and materials must be transported long distances (sometimes up to 1 meter) to supply the axon terminus. (northwestern.edu)
  • We are interested in the relationship between beta-amyloid deposition and the progressive formation of dystrophic neurites and cell death in hippocampal neurons. (northwestern.edu)
  • introduced diseased tau into mouse neurons growing in a cell culture. (prohealth.com)
  • Tauopathy is accompanied by significant neuronal death, but the relationships between initial tau misfolding, propagation across connected neurons and cytotoxicity remain unclear. (prohealth.com)
  • These are early-stage cells that are capable of maturing into inhibitory neurons. (iflscience.com)
  • Unexpectedly, the grafted cells not only survived in the brains of the mice and matured into inhibitory neurons, but they also functionally integrated into the neuronal circuit, restoring learning and memory. (iflscience.com)
  • These changes include the appearance of toxic tau tangles inside neurons, the loss of connections between neurons, inflammation, and, ultimately, the death of brain cells involved in thinking and memory. (upr.org)
  • [ 1 , 2 ] The expanded definition of Alzheimer disease includes 2 new phases of the disease-presymptomatic and mildly symptomatic but predementia-along with dementia caused by Alzheimer disease. (medscape.com)
  • When the brain doesn't get enough oxygen, it can choke out the cells and cause damage that contributes to dementia symptoms. (nutrivene.com)
  • Dementia is also the fifth leading cause of death globally and cases are expected to triple over the next 30 years. (healthline.com)
  • Each cause of dementia causes damage to a different set of brain cells. (healthline.com)
  • According to the World Alzheimer Report (2018), there are 50 million people living with dementia worldwide, of which 70-80 percent are AD patients, and by 2050 these numbers will be more than triple to 152 million ( Patterson, 2018 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Neurodegeneration and neurodegenerative diseases (including the shared mechanisms of nerve cell death that contribute to many diseases), Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia (VCID), NINDS tissue/cell resources, basic invertebrate neuromuscular junction (NMJ). (nih.gov)
  • Because progressive neuronal loss is implicated in the development of AD-associated dementia ( Mattson, 2004 ), reagents that suppress neuronal death can be promising candidates for AD therapy. (jneurosci.org)
  • laboratory and imaging tests are usually done to look for specific findings that suggest Alzheimer disease and to identify other treatable causes of dementia. (msdmanuals.com)
  • presymptomatic and mildly symptomatic but predementia-along with dementia caused by Alzheimer disease. (medscape.com)
  • It's a neurodegenerative disease, meaning there is a progressive type of brain cell death that happens over a period of time and varies in every individual. (nursenextdoor.com)
  • We now know these abnormalities, referred to as amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary (or tau) tangles, as hallmarks of the devastating neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer disease. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • It has been speculated whether they die from an unexplained sudden cardiac death or if the typical pathology seen in the brain in these individuals also appear in other organs, including the heart. (lu.se)
  • So, I wanted to investigate the cause of death in these individuals and explore if the typical pathology was also present in the heart. (lu.se)
  • People who develop Alzheimer disease are more likely to have an APOE ε4 allele than people who do not develop the disease. (medscape.com)
  • however, inheriting an APOE ε4 allele does not mean that a person will definitely develop Alzheimer disease. (medscape.com)
  • Although a blood test can identify which APOE alleles a person has, it cannot predict who will or will not develop Alzheimer disease. (medscape.com)
  • For example, having a certain form of apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene increases a person's risk of developing Alzheimer disease and it is also associated with an earlier onset of the disease. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • It is thought that the apolipoprotein E produced from the e4 allele of the APOE gene may disrupt the transport of a protein called alpha-synuclein into and out of cells. (medlineplus.gov)
  • APOE is a correlate of phenotypic heterogeneity in Alzheimer disease in a national cohort. (cdc.gov)
  • The patho-physiological characteristic of AD is abnormal deposition of fibrillar amyloid β protein, intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, oxidative damage and neuronal death in the brain. (springer.com)
  • we identified a novel gene encoding a 24 amino acid peptide named Humanin (HN) that suppressed neuronal death induced by any type of FAD genes thus far examined, toxic Aβ peptides, and anti-APP antibody (Hashimoto et al. (jneurosci.org)
  • Those plaques are often found near areas of cell death in diseased brains. (sciencedaily.com)
  • It's thought that eating a diet low in fats, cholesterol and sodium may help keep the brain strong enough to prevent some of these cell die-offs and limit the growth of plaques. (nutrivene.com)
  • The brains of people with the condition contain distinctive plaques between nerve cells, as well as clumps of fibers known as neurofibrillary tangles inside the cells. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • These plaques impair synapses so signals cannot pass between brain cells. (wellbeing.com.au)
  • In the 1980s, scientists showed that these plaques were made of beta-amyloid, a substance that exists in many forms in the brain, from single free-floating molecules to large assemblies that form the sticky plaques reported by Alzheimer. (upr.org)
  • These plaques disrupt the function of brain cells and their ability to communicate with each other - which may lead to cognitive issues, such as memory loss. (theconversation.com)
  • This signals that there's a threat to the brain's immune cells, which then come and remove the plaques. (theconversation.com)
  • beta-amyloid is the main component of neuritic (senile) plaques, which consist of degenerated axonal or dendritic processes, astrocytes, and glial cells around an amyloid core. (msdmanuals.com)
  • 95% homogeneous populations of human astrocytes within 30 days of differentiation from cortical neural progenitor cells (NPCs). (nature.com)
  • Astroglia are highly heterogeneous neural cells primarily responsible for homeostasis and neuroprotection in the CNS. (nature.com)
  • Neural damage from Alzheimer disease is typically first observed in parts of the brain involved in memory. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Nevertheless, most of our knowledge of AD derives from studies that utilise cell- and animal-based models of the clinically rare, early-onset, dominantly inherited familial AD (FAD). (nature.com)
  • There are 2 types of Alzheimer disease -early-onset (EOAD) and late-onset (LOAD). (medscape.com)
  • Mutations in genes for the amyloid precursor protein, presenilin I, and presenilin II may lead to autosomal dominant forms of Alzheimer disease, typically with early onset. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Some cases of early-onset disease have no known cause, but most cases are inherited, a type known as familial Alzheimer disease (FAD). (medscape.com)
  • When exposed to strong heat or radiation, vital cell proteins lose their structure and clot up to entangled clumps. (tum.de)
  • In 1906, a former patient of Dr. Alzheimer died of an unknown mental illness. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Most cases of Alzheimer disease are sporadic, with late onset ( ≥ 65 years) and unclear etiology. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Most cases of Alzheimer disease are the late-onset form, which develops after 60 years of age. (medscape.com)
  • The causes of late-onset Alzheimer disease are not yet completely understood, but they likely include a combination of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that influence a person's risk for developing the disease. (medscape.com)
  • At the opening AACR 2023 plenary session, Ralph DeNardo celebrated the successes of the current, mostly T-cell-based approaches, but also encouraged his colleagues to think more broadly about the antitumor immunity. (bioworld.com)
  • Genes are the "master blueprint" that instructs our cells to make unique proteins which in turn build, operate, and repair human tissue. (brightfocus.org)
  • Humanin (HN) is a short bioactive peptide abolishing neuronal cell death induced by various familial AD (FAD)-causative genes and amyloid-β (Aβ) in vitro . (jneurosci.org)
  • These novel changes induced by WNV may serve as of 173 cellular genes were identified by ArrayTools to be biomarkers and help explain the neuropathologic features differentially expressed in the WNV-infected A172 cells. (cdc.gov)
  • Scientists were initially interested in somatic-cell nuclear transfer as a means of determining whether genes remain functional even after most of them have been switched off as the cells in a developing organism assume their specialized functions as blood cells, muscle cells, and so forth. (who.int)
  • The fact that the DNA of a fully differentiated (adult) cell could be stimulated to revert to a condition comparable to that of a newly fertilized egg and to repeat the process of embryonic development demonstrates that all the genes in differentiated cells retain their functional capacity, although only a few are active. (who.int)
  • He has published over 600 papers on gene therapy, cell cycle, genetics of cancer, and epidemiology. (newswise.com)
  • Genetics also serve as a risk factor for Alzheimer disease, meaning a family history of the disease increases a person's likelihood of developing the disease. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Death from AD has increased 123 percent between 2000-2005 and more than 60 percent cases are from low to middle income countries ( Patterson, 2018 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • For more information on race and Hispanic origin classification please see the Technical Notes section of "Deaths: Leading Causes for 2018" . (cdc.gov)
  • It also helped to open a very exciting avenue of research involving investigators with expertise in different aspects of growth control and cancer.Giordano's lab also discovered the tumor suppressor gene RB2/p130 and the cell cycle kinases CDK9 and CDK10, two other key players in cell cycle regulation and cell differentiation. (newswise.com)
  • It was while examining her brain tissue that Dr. Alzheimer found many abnormal clumps and tangled bundles of fibers that he later linked to brain damage and the progression of the patient's misdiagnosed illness. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Mutant vasopressin forms pathological protein aggregates (red) instead of natural granules (green) in the nerve cells. (unibas.ch)
  • These solid, insoluble protein clumps damage the nerve cells. (unibas.ch)
  • It is known that for the synthesis of a protein, information written in the genetic code, which could be imagined as the manual for its assembly where triples of nucleotides match certain amino acids, should be taken out of the nucleus into the cytoplasm of the cell. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The group identified two variants that were related to heparin sulfate, which has been implicated in the cell-to-cell spread of tau protein. (sflorg.com)
  • Cell-surface expression of the major Aβ degrading enzyme, neprilysin, depends on phosphorylation by MEK and dephosphorylation by protein phosphatase 1a. (riken.jp)
  • Familial Alzheimer disease is caused by any one of a number of different single-gene mutations, such as mutations on chromosome 21, which cause the formation of abnormal amyloid precursor protein (APP). (medscape.com)
  • 5. In 2001, France and Germany requested the United Nations General Assembly to develop international conventions on human reproductive cloning, therapeutic cloning and research on stem cells. (who.int)
  • These changes may be useful as potential biomarkers and and infected cells by using the RNeasy Mini kit and elucidate novel mechanisms behind the neuropathology of QIAshredder (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). (cdc.gov)
  • Sufficiently large quantities cause plaque, which blocks the function of the nerve cells and thereby impair the patient's memory and cognitive ability. (medicalxpress.com)
  • The disease is a neurological disorder in which the death of brain cells results in progressive memory loss and cognitive decline. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Therefore, we think that the a-synuclein that accumulates in their heart may be the underlying reason for cardiac death in this patient group and that this accumulation may be an issue in the heart before it causes cognitive symptoms. (lu.se)
  • The damage of the DNA, if not repaired, leads to accumulation of mutations, cell death, and to the development of various diseases, including neurodegenerative, e.g. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Small heat shock proteins are the "catastrophe aid workers" of the cell. (tum.de)
  • Once these clumps have formed there is no return - the proteins become useless and the cells begin to die. (tum.de)
  • His early research includes seminal work done in 1989, demonstrating the importance of cell cycle proteins in the functioning of DNA tumor viruses. (newswise.com)
  • In healthy brain cells, tau proteins help stabilize the internal network of microscopic tubes, or "microtubules," that transports nutrients and other molecules around nerve cells. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • These so-called amyloids arise from misfolded proteins and lead to cell death. (unibas.ch)
  • The dense packing allows DNA molecule with a length of about two meters to fit into a microscopic cell nucleus, but it makes significant surfaces of the DNA inaccessible for the repair enzymes -- the proteins that manage the "repair" of damaged DNA regions. (sciencedaily.com)
  • As we reviewed possible hits, the 'aha moment' came when we saw Fas ligand on the list of affected proteins, because we know Fas is an integral receptor for controlling cell death," said Lathem. (medindia.net)
  • DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30227-8) haeufiger an einem Morbus Alzheimer/Demenz oder einem Morbus Parkinson. (safer-world.org)
  • These alterations have been described in neurodegenerative pathologies such as Alzheimer s and Parkinson s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and transmissible spongiform encephalopaties. (lu.se)
  • Although he had not been her doctor for several years, Dr. Alzheimer remained interested in her case because of how quickly the fifty-year-old patient's symptoms of memory loss, language problems, and unpredictable behavior had progressed. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Senior author Viviane Labrie shares , "In adults, brain cells typically are done dividing. (epigenie.com)
  • GAPDH (Glyceraldehyde 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase) is a central enzyme in glucose metabolism, but plays additional roles in the cell. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Genetic variation across RNA metabolism and cell death gene networks is implicated in the semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition, researchers have discovered several genetic variants that increase a person's risk for Alzheimer disease. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • This is the first time anyone has shown how bacteria can subvert apoptotic cell death by directly destroying Fas ligand," said Lathem, a member of the Center for Genetic Medicine and Interdepartmental Immunobiology Center. (medindia.net)
  • METHOD: Both genetic and functional alterations in mitochondria can lead to errors that trigger programmed cell death, which in turn give rise to a number of diseases that affect the nervous system. (lu.se)
  • 2. Nuclear transfer is a technique used to duplicate genetic material by creating an embryo through the transfer and fusion of a diploid cell in an enucleated female oocyte.2 Cloning has a broader meaning than nuclear transfer as it also involves gene replication and natural or induced embryo splitting (see Annex 1). (who.int)
  • if it implants and the pregnancy goes to term, the resulting individual will carry the same nuclear genetic material as the donor of the adult somatic cell. (who.int)
  • However, an animal created through this technique would not be a precise genetic copy of the source of its nuclear DNA because each clone derives a small amount of its DNA from the mitochondria of the egg (which lie outside the nucleus) rather than from the donor of cell nucleus. (who.int)
  • Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute and John Hopkins University discovered that salicylic acid, the primary breakdown product of aspirin, binds to GAPDH, thereby stopping it from moving into a cell's nucleus, where it can trigger the cell's death. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The researchers discovered that salicylic acid also is effective at stopping GAPDH from moving into the nucleus, thus preventing the cell from dying. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • While researchers have not found a magic bullet to beat Alzheimer disease, they have narrowed in on several risk factors that increase a person's likelihood of developing the disease. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Researchers did not know the timescale of this process and how misfolded tau can spread to other cells. (prohealth.com)
  • While the researchers are a long way from being able to translate this into a treatment for humans, it remains an important proof of concept study and suggests that one day cell replacement therapy may help AD patients. (iflscience.com)
  • Risk of Alzheimer disease is substantially increased in people with two epsilon-4 alleles and may be decreased in those who have the epsilon-2 allele. (msdmanuals.com)
  • For people with two epsilon-4 alleles, risk of developing Alzheimer disease by age 75 is about 10 to 30 times that for people without the allele. (msdmanuals.com)
  • A new study reveals how glial cells use a previously unknown molecular pathway to control the shape of specific nerve endings. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • This work not only presents a novel model to study the mechanisms of human astrocytes in vitro , but also provides an ideal platform for further interrogation of early astroglial cell autonomous events in AD and the possibility of identification of novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of AD. (nature.com)
  • We have shown, not yet in the cell, but in vitro, that the repair of breaks in the other DNA chain, which is "hidden" in the nucleosome, is still possible. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Among them, AGA-(C8R)HNG17, one of the most potent derivatives of HN, completely suppresses neuronal cell death by AD-relevant insults at a concentration of 10 p m in vitro . (jneurosci.org)
  • At that point, Bateman says, it may not be possible to stop the process that ultimately kills off brain cells. (upr.org)
  • When alpha-synuclein is trapped inside or outside of cells, it accumulates in clusters, creating Lewy bodies. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The sphingomyelin that accumulates in the lysosomes of Niemann-Pick disease-affected cells is thought to arise from the degradation of the cells and their organelles because it is a major component of all mammalian cell membranes. (medscape.com)
  • Cell migration plays important roles in many biological processes, but how migrating cells orchestrate intracellular molecules and subcellular structures to regulate their speed and direction is still not clear. (bvsalud.org)
  • Here, by characterizing the intracellular diffusion and the three-dimensional lamellipodium structures of fish keratocyte cells, we observe a strong positive correlation between the intracellular diffusion and cell migration speed and, more importantly, discover a switching of cell migration modes with reversible intracellular diffusion variation and lamellipodium structure deformation. (bvsalud.org)
  • Distinct from the normal fast mode, cells migrating in the newly-found slow mode have a deformed lamellipodium with swollen-up front and thinned-down rear, reduced intracellular diffusion and compartmentalized macromolecule distribution in the lamellipodium. (bvsalud.org)
  • Furthermore, in turning cells, both lamellipodium structure and intracellular diffusion dynamics are also changed, with left-right symmetry breaking. (bvsalud.org)
  • We propose a mechanism involving the front-localized actin polymerization and increased molecular crowding in the lamellipodium to explain how cells spatiotemporally coordinate the intracellular diffusion dynamics and the lamellipodium structure in regulating their migrations. (bvsalud.org)
  • This could be a common feature, where we see other bacteria manipulating cell death pathways by altering Fas signaling. (medindia.net)
  • The term applies not only to entire organisms but also to copies of molecules (such as DNA) and cells. (who.int)
  • The transforming gene products of these viruses, such as the E1A oncoproteins of adenovirus 5, led to the identification of cellular factor p60, known as cyclin A. This research was the first demonstration of a physical link between cellular transformation and the cell cycle, thereby paving the way for the melding of these two areas of research. (newswise.com)
  • Fast-forward over a century and Alzheimer disease research received $2.8 billion in funding this year from the National Institutes of Health. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Although much progress has been made in Alzheimer disease research since the landmark discovery by its namesake in the early 1900s, there is still no cure for it. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • Somatic-cell nuclear transfer, the technique by which Dolly was created, was first used 40 years ago in research with tadpoles and frogs. (who.int)
  • Alzheimer was working at a psychiatric clinic in Munich, where he had the chance to conduct an autopsy on a woman who died at 50 after experiencing memory loss, disorientation, and hallucinations. (upr.org)
  • Alzheimer disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disease. (medscape.com)
  • Alzheimer disease is a progressive disease that affects a person's memory, thinking, and behavior. (hudsonalpha.org)
  • As devastating as these diseases are anywhere, members of a family in Antioquia, Colombia, suffer from a particularly cruel version that strikes them in their mid-40s and results in death within 10 to 12 years. (sflorg.com)
  • WNV replicates in a wide variety of cell types, and on a Lucidea SlidePro Hybridizer (Amersham Bio- studies have traditionally been carried out in Vero (green sciences). (cdc.gov)
  • Foam-cell infiltration and visceromegaly are common features in all forms, but neurologic involvement occurs only in types A and C and not in type B. (medscape.com)
  • The anti-Parkinson's drug deprenyl blocks GAPDH's entry into the nucleus and the resulting cell death. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Both are more effective than salicylic acid at blocking GAPDH's movement into the nucleus and the resulting cell death. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The nucleus of an adult somatic cell (such as a skin cell) is removed and transferred to an enucleated egg, which is then stimulated with electric current or chemicals to activate cell division. (who.int)
  • 1 , 2 In addition, astroglial cells are endowed with an evolutionary conserved defensive programme known as reactive gliosis, which develops in response to CNS lesions and is manifested by a spectrum of disease-specific cellular responses including hypertrophy and upregulation of intermediate filaments. (nature.com)
  • The mitochondrion seems to play an important part in the cellular decision making that leads, irreversibly, toward the execution phase in cellular death processes. (lu.se)
  • It has been generally accepted that increased levels of toxic amyloid-βs (Aβs) are closely related to AD pathogenesis, including neuronal cell death (for review, see Hardy and Selkoe, 2002 ). (jneurosci.org)
  • It is known that the production of oligomers during the aggregation of Aβ42 into highly ordered fibrils is responsible for neuronal cell death. (lu.se)