Research Brief: Naked Truth—Long Life and Oxidative Stress
One theory of aging suggests that it is oxidative damage that causes senescence, a hypothesis supported by the increased levels of oxidation products found in older animals...
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One theory of aging suggests that it is oxidative damage that causes senescence, a hypothesis supported by the increased levels of oxidation products found in older animals...
Agitation is one of the most difficult symptoms of dementia for patients and caregivers to deal with...
Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) and the Fondation Médéric Alzheimer have presented the first global award for psychosocial research in Alzheimer’s and dementia...
Among yeast biologists, prions are not considered to be the misshapen monsters early studies made them out to be...
Amid the buzz over passive immunotherapy as a potential treatment for Alzheimer disease, the prevention chorus has swelled a tad...
For the past two years, HBO’s award-winning documentary team has been filming and editing a massive project on Alzheimer disease...
Structural analyses offer insight into how a cancer drug stabilizes a tau pre-messenger RNA structure to curb production of a tau splice form that leads to dementia when made in excess...
Researchers have generated common marmosets that carry a transgene for enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)...
Calculating the risk of impending AD based on levels of CSF Aβ42 has been tricky because the peptide forms insoluble aggregates that muddle estimates of its production rate in the CNS...
It’s enough to make a doctor’s head ache—antithrombotic drugs may protect people from stroke or heart attack, but the same medications may also increase risk of cerebral microbleeds...
People who complain of troubling memory lapses but show no impairment in standard memory tests may take some solace from a recent European study...
Researchers have identified a guardian angel protein that protects neurons from the toxic effects of nitric oxide...
For a motor neuron to maintain the unwieldy meter-long axons that innervate the lower limbs requires all the cell’s parts to work together perfectly...
Building a healthy axon, like erecting a skyscraper, takes a variety of workers and materials...
Researchers have identified age-dependent learning problems that seem to stem from defects in synaptic function...