New molecules working against Alzheimer's discovered

Saturday, April 12, 2014 - 15:31 in Biology & Nature

Eight new active molecules working against Alzheimer's have been discovered by researchers. One of the most relevant aspects of the work is that the new molecules have been designed following a mechanism which not only implies the inhibition of the deposit of the beta-amyloid protein, which causes the disease to originate and the creation of small fragments of protein, called oligomers, which originate in the initial stages of the disease and seem to play a determinant role in the development of the process.

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