Study identifies high levels of aluminium in the brains of familial Alzheimer's disease victims
Published on January 12, 2017 at 2:55 AM · 5 Comments
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A recently published study of the brains of familial Alzheimer's disease victims has found extremely high levels of aluminium in the tissue, announced Dr. Christopher Exley, researcher and professor at Keele University. This is the first study of its kind to focus on those genetically predisposed to Alzheimer's, using fluorescence microscopy to identify aluminium in the brain tissue.
"For half a century or more, there has been a strong link between human exposure to aluminium and the incidence of Alzheimer's disease," says Exley, who worked on the study with fellow researchers, Ambreen Mirza, Andrew King, and Claire Troakes. "These findings are unequivocal in their confirmation of the role of aluminium in some, if not all, Alzheimer's disease."
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Published in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, the study of brain tissue from 12 donors found extremely high concentrations of aluminium, in excess of 10 μg/g tissue dry wt. These levels are higher than almost all previous measurements of brain aluminium.
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