Turmeric-based drug effective on Alzheimer flies

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 10:01 in Biology & Nature

Curcumin, a substance extracted from turmeric, prolongs life and enhances activity of fruit flies with a nervous disorder similar to Alzheimers. The study conducted at Linköping University, indicates that it is the initial stages of fibril formation and fragments of the amyloid fibrils that are most toxic to neurons.

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