New treatment reverses Alzheimer's disease signs, improves memory function in preclinical study

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New treatment reverses Alzheimer's disease signs, improves memory function in preclinical study

"4-phenylbutyrate (PBA), a fatty-acid molecule known to work as a "chemical chaperone" that inhibits protein accumulation"

New treatment reverses Alzheimer's disease signs, improves memory function in preclinical study

A "chaperone" molecule that slows the formation of certain proteins reversed disease signs, including memory impairment, in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

medicalxpress.com

 

[unloadonme]

It improves memory in mice. I'd suggest that that is a very long way from preventing or reversing Alzheimer's in H sapiens.

 

[rareboy]

We have been disappointed so many times over the last 30 years by promising pre-clinical research....I am pretty certain at this point, the real breakthrough won't come in my own lifetime.

 

[Peloso]

Just what are you insinuating?

 

[rareboy]

I forget.