Promising discovery for a non-invasive early detection of Alzheimer's disease
Date:
December 22, 2016
Source:
IOS Press
Summary:
A team of scientists has pioneered new technology that detects in human blood platelets the pathological oligomeric forms of brain tau protein in patients with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, leading toward high relevance findings for the research community.
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High molecular weight tau bands (about 80kDa) can be appreciated, with greater immunoreactivity in patients with AD compared with healthy subjects.
Credit: Dr. Ricardo B. Maccioni
A discovery of high relevance in medical research will be published in Volume 55, number 4 of December 2016 of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (JAD), entitled "Tau Platelets Correlate with Regional Brain Atrophy in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease." This paper has been highlighted as one of the most important contribution to this field. The paper stems from a fruitful collaboration between the neuroscience laboratory from the International Center for Biomedicine (ICC) under the leadership of Dr. Ricardo Maccioni and the research teams of Drs. Andrea Slachevsky, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, together with Drs. Oscar Lopez and James Becker from University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, USA.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161222134623.htm
