LSU Identifies Key Contributor To Alzheimer's

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LSUHSC Research Identifies Key Contributor To Alzheimer's Disease Process

Main Category: Alzheimer's / Dementia
Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines; Biology / Biochemistry; Neurology / Neuroscience
Article Date: 14 Nov 2008 - 2:00 PST


Walter J. Lukiw, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Ophthalmology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, is the lead author of a paper identifying, for the first time, a specific function of a fragment of ribonucleic acid (RNA), once thought to be no more than a byproduct, in regulating inflammation and the development of Alzheimer's disease. The paper, An NF-kB-sensitive micro RNA-146a-mediated inflammatory circuit in Alzheimer's disease and in stressed human brain cells, will be published in the November 14, 2008 issue of The Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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I hope more research will fine a cure or treatment for Alzheimer . I have several friends who had Alzheimer, and have died from it.