Insight Into Ways Organ Systems Outside The Brain May Affect Alzheimer's Disease

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 01:22 in Biology & Nature

A new study provides insights into the way A-beta in the peripheral blood stream affects A-beta clearance in the brain. Scientists found that when circulating A-beta levels in the blood stream of rats were elevated, known amounts of radioactively tagged A-beta were swept from the brain more slowly.

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