Increasing brain enzyme may slow Alzheimer's disease progression; Study finds damaging accumulation of tau proteins removed

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 13:31 in Health & Medicine

Increasing a naturally occurring enzyme in the brain slowed the damaging accumulation of tau proteins that are toxic to nerve cells and eventually lead to the neurofibrillary tangles, a major pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

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