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  Alzheimer's and Senile Dementia Can Strike Anyone at Anytime
  When you drive 45.95 miles into the desert, you need to know why you went there.
  by peterneibert / on Jun 3, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “amyloid”

 

• Science Podcast, 10 September 2010

  
  Science Signaling — Authority: 160
  Estimating the future global warming impact of current infrastructure; a 2010 reality check on progress in biodiversity conservation; the role of the tau protein in the pathology of Alzheimers disease; and more.
  9 hours ago

• Acyclovir or Abeta42 peptides attenuate HSV-1-induced miRNA-146a levels in human primary brain cells.

  
  Polygenicblog — Authority: 139
  Acyclovir or Abeta42 peptides attenuate HSV-1-induced miRNA -146a levels in human primary brain cells pub-5799224524264318
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• VMware Makes Two Acquisitions, Mascoma Picks Up SunOpta Unit, Vela Gets $6M, & More Boston-Area Deals News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 697
  Roundup , deals , acquisitions Erin Kutz wrote: The holiday weekend hasn’t seemed to slow down deal-making in New England. We’ve seen acquisitions, funding rounds, and even an IPO registration for companies in the life sciences, software, and energy spaces. —Drugmaker giant Pfizer said it had ...
  2 days ago

• Alzheimer’s Drug Research – A Ray of Hope

  
  As Our Parents Age — Authority: 123
  Read  Finding Suggests New Target for Alzheimer’s Drugs , by  New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata, to learn about a new direction in Alzheimer’s disease research. In her article Kolata writes about Nobel Prize winner (2000) Paul Greengard , an 84-year-old scientist, who is studying a specific ...
  6 days ago

• PerkinElmer Sells Unit for $500M, Aveo Stock Climbs, Pfizer Buys FoldRx, & More Boston-Area Life Sciences News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 697
  Roundup , Life Sciences , acquisitions Erin Kutz wrote: This week we saw news of acquisitions from drug giants, and got updates on several New England biotechs. —The FDA alerted South San Francisco-based Genentech that it was not going to review its application for accelerated approval of its ...
  1 week ago

• Gleevec Cancer Drug Reported To Work In Alzheimer’s disease also working in Niemann Pick Type C mouse

  
  The Addi and Cassi Fund - Niemann Pick Type C — Authority: 117
  A New York Times story is reporting that Paul Greengard (and his dog Alpha), who a Nobel Prize for his work on signaling in brain cells, has found out that the cancer drug Gleevec, is a new potential drug target for Alzheimer’s disease.  Rudolph Tanzi and Paul Aisen are quoted in the article.I think they [...]
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• Pfizer Gobbles FoldRx in Big Pharma’s Latest Rare Disease Play in Boston Area

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 697
  Life Sciences , deals , startups Ryan McBride wrote: Big drug companies can’t seem to resist buying Boston-area biotech firms in the rare disease drug business. Pfizer, the world’s largest drugmaker, said this morning that it has agreed to purchase Cambridge, MA-based FoldRx Pharmaceuticals for an ...
  1 week ago

• Rheumatoid Arthritis and its Relationship to Alzheimers Disease

  
  Alzheimer's Reading Room — Authority: 447
  By Max Wallack Alzheimers Reading Room According to the Caroline Parkinson, Health Reporter for BBC News, “Arthritis protein guards against Alzheimer’s disease.” When this protein was given to mice with memory loss, they did better in memory tests. It had been noted previously that people with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rheumatoid arthritis may protect against Alzheimer’s disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 608
  Washington, Aug 23 (ANI): In a recent experiment, a protein released during rheumatoid arthritis lessened the intensity of Alzheimer’s disease in mice.University of South Florida researchers found that the protein, GM-CSF, likely stimulates the body’s natural scavenger cells to attack and remove Alzheimer’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Direct Relationship Seen Between Plasma Aβ Levels and Cognitive Decline (part 3)

  
  dementia views you can use — Authority: 122
  Here is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can be Here is a way for nurses administrators, social workers and other health care professionals to get an easyceu or two Here are more interesting dementia brain boosting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Direct Relationship Seen Between Plasma Aβ Levels and Cognitive Decline (part 2)

  
  dementia views you can use — Authority: 122
  Here is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can be Here is a way for nurses administrators, social workers and other health care professionals to get an easyceu or two Here are more interesting dementia brain boosting ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bapineuzumab

  
  SeevsPlace — Authority: 105
  I think it’s pronounced as “Bap pin neuz zu mab” but what is it? Well, it’s a drug that is an anti-amyloid agent. And what is an anti-amyloid agent? That’s an agent which targets beta-amyloid protein production. These proteins are the sticky plaques that form when soluble beta-amyloid changes shape to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Alzheimer’s Drug Fails Clinical Trials

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 591
  Clinical trials of a drug aimed at reducing beta-amyloid plaque accumulation in Alzheimer’s disease have been stopped because of lack of efficacy, striking another blow against the amyloid theory of the disease. Eli Lilly announced that it was halting development of a drug called semagacestat, an inhibitor of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Neural Stem Cells Reverse Alzheimer’s-Like Symptoms

  
  CVN Health — Authority: 137
  Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have reversed Alzheimers-like symptoms in mouse models of the disease with injections of neural stem cells. The first author, Mathew Blurton-Jones, has a Training grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The lead author, Frank LaFerla, has a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brains or Trains

  
  Living with Alzhiemers' — Authority: 112
  I wonder sometimes if I have any brains left or if they are just trains runnnning in a circle. Things to me seem to be getting fuzzier each day. I forget mor of what I am going to do each day. Wife is up North visiting daughter and kids, I just could not take going after her 50th a week or so ago.  I found 32 good ...
  3 weeks ago

• Proteins Linked with Alzheimer’s, Other Neurodegenerative Diseases Found to Clump in Normal Aging

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 470
  In neurodegenerative diseases, clumps of insoluble proteins appear in patients’ brains. These aggregates contain proteins that are unique to each disease, such as amyloid beta in Alzheimer’s disease, but they are intertwined with small amounts of many other insoluble proteins that are normally present in a soluble ...
  4 weeks ago

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