Article: Researchers Successfully Immunize Mice Against AD.(Alzheimer's disease vaccine research)

2001 AUG 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --

New York University School of Medicine researchers have prevented the development of Alzheimer disease in mice genetically engineered with the human gene for the disease using a new vaccine.

The researchers are optimistic that this new vaccine is safer than one already being tested in early human clinical trials.

In a new study, the researchers report that the new vaccine, modeled on a fragment of a protein called amyloid, which is most frequently implicated in causing Alzheimer's, reduced the amount of amyloid plaque in the brains of mice by 89%. And, at the same time, the vaccine reduced the amount of ...

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