Although tau buildup is found
in other brain diseases, like Alzheimer's, in CTE, the protein congregates in brain cells around small blood vessels.
Using images of paper - thin cross-sections of brain tissue from autopsy of boxers, football players, and soldiers, McKee pointed out features that distinguish CTE
from other brain diseases.
Therefore, the mechanism is a potentially useful target for the production of new nerve cells, when replacing dead cells
following other brain diseases or damage.»
These mechanisms may occur not only in autoimmune disorders, but also
in other brain diseases that involve inflammation or a break in the BBB, including traumatic brain injury, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and other dementias.
An easy - to - use diagnostic test would let doctors clearly differentiate prion diseases
from other brain diseases, according to Byron Caughey, Ph.D., the lead NIAID scientist involved in the study.
Wait: yes or no, is there an association between football and CTE and / or
other brain diseases?
Such compounds might prevent overstimulation of the glutamate pathway, which appears to play a role in Alzheimer's and
other brain diseases.
Beyond PSP,
other brain diseases are also marked by abnormal tau clumps — among them a rare movement disorder called corticobasal degeneration, an inherited form of frontotemporal dementia with Parkinson's - like features, and Alzheimer's disease.
Accumulation of insoluble U1 protein was seen in samples from patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a precursor stage to Alzheimer's, but the U1 pathology was not seen in
any other brain diseases that were examined.
«Scientists ID compounds that target amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's,
other brain diseases.»
For the study, scientists examined the brains of 36 male athletes, ages 17 to 98, diagnosed with CTE after death, and who had
no other brain disease, such as Alzheimer's.
Researchers have long known that in about half of FTD cases, brains are speckled with protein clumps containing tau, a protein implicated in Alzheimer's and
other brain diseases.
«The NFT is thought to be more closely related to memory decline than other forms of aging - related pathologies, but there are still very few genes that have been implicated in the accumulation of this key feature of Alzheimer's disease and
other brain diseases.»
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This is hard in Huntington's disease and
other brain diseases, because we can't look at the brain directly to see whether the drug is working.
When cellular proteins fold improperly and clump together, they accumulate and form the plaque that is involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's and
other brain diseases.