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Decryption – The molecule could help slow the cognitive decline of patients, according to an American study conducted on mice.
What if an element naturally present in the body could both explain the cause of Alzheimer’s disease, and serve as a treatment? The answer could reside in lithium, suggest the work of a team of researchers from the Harvard Medical School (United States). A new hope for the 35.6 million patients around the world – almost 1 million in France – and their loved ones.
If we do not yet know the exact causes of this neurodegenerative disease, two types of lesions are usually observed in the brain of patients: amyloid plates and tau protein aggregates, which alter the functioning of neurons. Nevertheless, we do not yet understand the whole of the mechanics at work in the disease. For more information, the Harvard team, which published its results in early August in the journal Nature , analyzed in post-mortem human brain fabrics 27 traces of metals known for their role in the proper functioning …
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