Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Study finds insulin-Alzheimer's connection

This is pretty interesting:

"Insulin disappears early and dramatically in Alzheimer's disease," senior researcher Suzanne M. de la Monte, a neuropathologist at Rhode Island Hospital and a professor of pathology at Brown University Medical School, said in a prepared statement.

"And many of the unexplained features of Alzheimer's, such as cell death and tangles in the brain, appear to be linked to abnormalities in insulin signaling. This demonstrates that the disease is most likely a neuroendocrine disorder, or another type of diabetes," she added.

Hopefully this will open up new avenues of treatment.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Could be true. My mom has been a chronic diabetic for the past forty years. She has for the last two years slipping uncontrollably in her cognitive faculties due to Alzheimers.

Krishna Kumar
India

2/05/2006 10:10:00 PM  
Blogger Ali said...

I'm very sorry to hear that. I know how hard that can be - my grandmother suffered dementia due to Parkinson's. At least we can hope that strides will be made in research, hopefully soon.

2/06/2006 12:10:00 AM  

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