Compounds Have Potential For Diagnosis, Treatment Of Alzheimer's Disease

Friday, August 22, 2008 - 10:14 in Health & Medicine

New research suggests that a select group of compounds that interact with a protein in the brain might be used in the early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other dementia disorders. Scientists have discovered that these compounds interact in three specific ways with the tau protein, which is the subject of a growing body of research into the causes and progression of dementia.

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