Sunday, 2 February 2014

Potential Biomarkers Identified for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

Bess Frost, PhD, and co-authors, identify abnormal expression of genes, resulting from DNA relaxation, that can be detected in the brain and blood of Alzheimer's patients, in a study published in iNature Neuroscience/i. The protein tau is involved in a number of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease. Previous studies have implicated DNA damage as a cause of neuron, or cell, death in Alzheimer's patients. Given that DNA damage can change ...




via Medindia Health News More READ


Lake forest health and fitness http://ift.tt/1k0A4jf

No comments:

Post a Comment