Genetics, pancreatic disease, certain medications and
abnormal protein deposits in the pancreas can play a role in causing this disorder.
Autoimmune disease, genetics, obesity, chronic pancreatitis, certain medications and
abnormal protein deposits in the pancreas can play a major role in the development of the disease.
However, autoimmune disease, genetics, obesity, chronic pancreatitis, certain medications and
abnormal protein deposits in the pancreas can play a major role in the development of the disease.
Scientists have identified a basic pathologic process underlying Alzheimer's development that involves the formation of
abnormal protein deposits in the brain known as beta - amyloid plaques, but they still aren't entirely sure what causes this to happen.
But this is the first study to show how lifestyle factors directly influence levels of
abnormal protein deposits in the brain that have been long tied to Alzheimer's disease.
Studies in mice specially bred to have features of the disease found that DHA reduces beta - amyloid plaques,
abnormal protein deposits in the brain that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's, although a clinical trial of DHA showed no impact on people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.
Not exact matches
People with the transthyretin amyloidosis have mutations
in the DNA of the transthyretin gene, which causes
abnormal buildup and
deposits of a transport
protein called transthyretin
in nerve and heart cells.
This turned out to be a normal
protein in the cells of organisms throughout the animal kingdom — but
in brains infected with scrapie and related diseases it turns up
in both a normal, soluble form and an
abnormal, insoluble form which accumulates
in deposits that eventually kill the cells.
The dementia
in the other half appeared to have been caused by
abnormal protein deposits (known as Lewy bodies), stroke - related tissue death (microinfarcts), cell damage, or some combination thereof.