Sentences with phrase «presence of amyloid plaque»

After administering PET scans to 4000 people previously diagnosed with either mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia and treated for Alzheimer's to test for the presence of amyloid plaque, only 53.3 % of patients with MCI and 70.5 % with dementia tested positive.

Once again, decreasing the number of receptors improved memory, even in the presence of amyloid plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's.

Arrows indicate the presence of amyloid plaques.

A positron emission tomography scan was also conducted to detect the presence of amyloid plaques and Alzheimer's - related proteins in the brain.

Not exact matches

There seemed to be a direct relationship between the presence of CD33 and the number of destructive amyloid plaques.

amyloid plaques and pathologic tau while a different group defines Alzheimer's disease as the presence of amnestic dementia then findings from the two groups point to different entities and conclusions are not directly comparable.

The early intraneuronal pathology was accompanied by a significant elevation of soluble Aβ42 peptides that paralleled the presence and progression of early cognitive deficits, several months prior to amyloid plaque deposition.

Characteristic neuropathological findings were focal depletion of diffuse and neuritic plaques, but not of amyloid angiopathy, and the presence of small numbers of extremely dense (collapsed) plaques surrounded by active microglia, and multinucleated giant cells filled with dense Abeta42 and Abeta40, in addition to severe small cerebral blood vessel disease and multiple cortical hemorrhages.

There has been some research that has shown potential for an increase in what are called neurofibrillary tangles where the formation of what are called beta amyloid plaques and neurodegeneration in your brain in the presence of pot intake.