Can you catch Alzheimer's?

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3150, 2017, pág. 6
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Fear has been growing that Alzheimer's disease might be capable of spreading via blood transfusions, but it has been hard to find any evidence that this is happening. Now a study has found that an Alzheimer's protein can pass between mice sharing a blood supply. Weihong Song at the University of British Columbia in Canada and his team carried out the study on mice with a gene that makes the human version of beta-amyloid, because the animals don't normally develop Alzheimer's. This gene meant the mice developed brain plaques and neurodegeneration