‘Lack of cleaning’ in brain cells is central to Alzheimer’s disease

Friday, February 15, 2019 - 09:40 in Biology & Nature

An international research team with representation from the University of Copenhagen has created a better understanding of Alzheimer’s. They have shown that the cleaning system of the brain cells, the so-called mitophagy, is very weakened in animals and humans with Alzheimer’s. And when they improve the cleaning system in the animals, the Alzheimer’s symptoms almost […]

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