Sentences with phrase «beta plaque deposits»

Reducing progranulin markedly increased amyloid - beta plaque deposits in the brain as well as memory impairments.

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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.

While approximately 80 percent of Alzheimer's disease patients also have cerebral amyloid angiopathy, or amyloid beta deposits in the brain's blood vessels that increase the risk for stroke and dementia, the predominant amyloid beta pathology is plaques.

Immunotherapy is a promising strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer's that uses antibodies to stimulate the immune system to remove pieces of a protein called amyloid beta which accumulates in the brain (in deposits known as plaques) and is thought to be a major factor driving Alzheimer's neurodegenerative effects.

The researchers were looking for two specific types of protein: deposits of beta - amyloid plaque and knotted threads of tau protein tangles.

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.