Potential New Drug Target For Diabetes And Alzheimer's Disease
"The study, which focuses on diabetic rodents, appears this month in PLoS One and is the first to show a role in glucose metabolism for humanin, a small protein (peptide). The researchers also demonstrated that humanin resembles the peptide leptin by acting on the brain to influence glucose metabolism.
Humanin is found in mitochondria — structures that populate the cytoplasm of cells and provide them with energy. The peptide was first detected in brain nerve cells in 2001, and subsequent studies suggest that it protects nerve cells from death associated with Alzheimer's and other brain disease."
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Potential New Drug Target For Diabetes And Alzheimer's Disease
The point is that experiments on rodents can help us understand how Alzheimer's works in people.
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A broad further step towards solving alzheimers. This will be good as i have read that the current medicine is not so effective nor helpful.
ReplyDeleteI think it's going to turn out to be medicine and/or food plus exercise. Medicine alone ain't going to do it. As much as we would all love to believe it, there are no magic pills. It's just that every one has a unique body chemistry. You can't have a drug that works exactly the same way in everyone's body.
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