After the five month period, researchers found that the mice had dramatically lowered levels of alpha beta - 56, a specific form of oligomer previously implicated in the promotion of Alzheimer's disease memory loss. (liveinthenow.com)
«We have a new brain imaging method that can detect the toxin that leads to Alzheimer's disease,» said Klein, who first identified the amyloid beta oligomer in 1998. (sciencedaily.com)
Consistent with this, AFF 1 immunotherapy reduced the accumulation of AS neuropathology in neuronal bodies and neuropil at the cardinal sites for this LBD model (neocortex and hippocampus), and reduced the levels of AS dimers as well as oligomers in brain homogenates, while having no significant effect on monomeric AS. (sens.org)