Sentences with phrase «brain plaque without»

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After three months of feeding, the mice had reductions in Aβ plaques of up to 70 percent in the hippocampus and up to 40 percent in the cortex, whereas mice fed capsules that contained lettuce leaves without CTB - MBP added and mice that were not fed any capsules did not have any reduction in evidence of brain plaques.

«Using nanoliposomes offers an alternative way to inhibit the toxic build - up of amyloid plaques without activating an immune response in the brain.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

Golde notes that while normal concentrations of amyloid - beta in human brains can aggregate to form plaques, that doesn't happen in the lab without help.

«If we can adjust where BACE1 cuts the precursor protein, we will have a very precise way of slowing the buildup of plaque in the brain, without affecting other processes,» said Song, a Psychiatry Professor and Alzheimer's researcher.

Sections from the brains of homozygous ApoE4 AD patients are so riddled with Aβ plaques that they can often be distinguished from those of E3 carriers without a microscope.32