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.