Copper can protect against Alzheimer's disease

Sunday, February 17, 2013 - 15:00 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have provided unequivocal evidence that under conditions which are approximately similar to those found in the brain, copper can only protect against beta amyloid forming beta sheets and as such it is highly unlikely that copper is directly involved in the formation of senile plaques in Alzheimer's disease.

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