mellowsong
02-10-12, 10:52 AM
Alice Park
10 February 2012
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have discovered that a drug currently used to treat cancer patients can reverse the cognitive deficits related to Alzheimer’s disease in mice, and what’s more, it accomplishes this feat in a remarkably short period of time.
The drug, called bexarotene, has been approved for the treatment of a type of skin cancer since 1999. In the new experiments with genetically engineered mice, the drug quickly cleared away the beta-amyloid plaques in the brain that are believed to cause cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s disease.
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/10/a-cancer-drug-reverses-alzheimers-disease-in-mice/#ixzz1lzjZW6We
10 February 2012
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have discovered that a drug currently used to treat cancer patients can reverse the cognitive deficits related to Alzheimer’s disease in mice, and what’s more, it accomplishes this feat in a remarkably short period of time.
The drug, called bexarotene, has been approved for the treatment of a type of skin cancer since 1999. In the new experiments with genetically engineered mice, the drug quickly cleared away the beta-amyloid plaques in the brain that are believed to cause cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s disease.
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/10/a-cancer-drug-reverses-alzheimers-disease-in-mice/#ixzz1lzjZW6We