http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/program/20016 Stories referencing a program (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/scientists-isolate-a-toxic-key-alzheimers-disease-human-brains <!--paging_filter--> <p>Scientists have long questioned whether the abundant amounts of <a title="" href="http://www.ahaf.org/alzdis/about/AmyloidPlaques.htm">amyloid plaques </a>found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's actually caused the neurological disease or were a by-product of its progress. Now, using new research techniques, scientists have shown that a two-molecule aggregate (or dimer) of beta-amyloid protein fragments may play a role in initiating the disease. </p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/scientists-isolate-a-toxic-key-alzheimers-disease-human-brains">read more</a></p> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:23:16 -0400 404132862 20286 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu