RESEARCH NEWS 1999-04-28 Research News Atherosclerotic processes are drawing the attention of some Alzheimer's researchers who point to a number of links between atherosclerotic disease and Alzheimer's disease. It is only natural then, that vitamin E, a hot topic in the
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-04-23 Research News At the American Academy of Neurology meeting in Toronto, Scott Small and colleagues presented data suggesting that fMRI can distinguish early AD-related memory decline from other sources of memory decline. Citing evidence that entorhinal cor
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-04-15 Research News In the search for the elusive γ-secretase that cleaves β-amyloid precursor protein (APP), much attention has been paid to the protein Notch, which is critical in developmental pathways and has recently been found to be important in immune fu
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-04-09 Research News Three-dimensional images of enzymes at work in cells? This is the promise of a new advance in microscopy called fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM). Philippe Bastiaens and Anthony Squire at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in Lo
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-04-05 Research News Fred Van Leeuwen and his colleagues reported last year that some neurons in Alzheimer's patients contain mutant RNA coding for APP and ubiquitin, despite the fact that the DNA from which the RNA had been transcribed was not mutated. By
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-04-01 Research News β-catenin, a protein that regulates transcription, has drawn attention in Alzheimer's research because it interacts with PS1 and PS2. It was also recently found that AD patients with the PS1 mutation have markedly reduced β-catenin in t
WEBINAR 1999-03-24 Paul Coleman, with Carl Cotman, Mark A. Smith, and George Perry, led this live discussion on 24 March 1999. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Transcript: Live discussion held 24 March 1
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-03-22 Research News It has long been assumed that the reason Alzheimer patients tend to get lost is because of memory failure and confusion. But a new study appearing in tomorow’s issue of Neurology suggests that impaired processing of visual information may co
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-03-19 Research News Researchers in the U.K. have created conditions inside a test tube in which human prion protein can flip back and forth between normal forms and abnormal forms associated with neurodegenerative disease. In its normal form, prion protein is r