Jeson Aviles - Alzheimer’s Disease is Completely Reversed by Removing Just One Enzyme, Says New Study

Tested in mice, an experimental treatment has revealed that by reducing the levels of a single enzyme (enzyme BACE1) in the brain will apparently completely reverse Alzheimer's disease. Results grow the theory that amyloid plaques are at the root of this brain disease. Amyloid plaques form when pieces of protein become clumped together in the brain, found in high amounts in those victim to the disease. BASE1 naturally forms in the brain and aids in the production of beta-amyloid peptide, which is found to have involvement with brain plaque formation . By addressing these plaques, hopes are that a cure will eventually sprout for Alzheimer's. Offspring of the experimented rats even showed signs of reduced BACE1 levels, a result of the test subjects having the specific enzyme worked upon. Continuation of aging in the second generation showed that their brains began to keep losing BACE1 activity, eventually concluding with no plaques at all existing in the mice brains. Although this is a rewarding step in combating Alzheimer's, Dr. Richardson Isaacson, Director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic in New York pointed out that mice and men differ too greatly to show accurate reflections of results to each other.

Advancements in medical fields surrounding aging individuals reflects the progressing world we live in, although not found in moral and political aspects currently found in America, these studies still give hope to an adaptive future in which diseases will be more successfully be avoided.

Posted with permission from Newsweek by Dana Dovey on February 15, 2018
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