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UW researchers find possible treatment for Alzheimer’s

University of Wisconsin researchers say they’ve found a treatment to clean up the plaques that form in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease.

The research published in the journal Brain shows that compounds that inhibit two cellular proteins can help clean up the plaques found in the brain of mice with Alzheimer’s disease. The proteins work inside the cell to remove toxic material.

Quoted: Luigi Puglielli, of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.