- BDNF
“Injections of a natural growth factor into the brains of mice, rats and monkeys offers hope of preventing or reversing the earliest impacts of Alzheimer’s disease on memory. The benefits arose even in animals whose brains contained the hallmark plaques that clog up the brains of patients.
By delivering brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) directly into the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus, the parts of the brain where memories are formed then consolidated, the researchers successfully tackled damage exactly where Alzheimer’s strikes first…” via New Scientist.
This is encouraging…
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Well, the problem, as so often, would seem to be that it works with mice, rats, monkeys. And as my doctors use to say: ‘We can cure a lot of diseases, even help with the worst of them. If you happen to be a rat. With humans it’s unfortunately much more complicated.’
Still, encouraging news nonetheless.
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