RESEARCH NEWS 1999-06-23 Research News In tomorrow's issue of Nature, Jorge Ghiso and colleagues at New York University, and coworkers at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, report that they have found the gene mutation that produces the amyloid i
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-06-23 Research News In tomorrow’s issue of Nature (pp. 784-788), Kun Ping Lu of Harvard Medical School and colleagues report that an enzyme, prolyl isomerase Pin1, binds to phosphorylated tau from Alzheimer’s patients and restores tau’s ability to bind to micro
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-06-22 Research News Neurons taken from the brains of deceased Alzheimer's patients exhibit markers for apoptosis, but little is known about what induces the expression of apoptotic genes. In today’s proceedings of the National Academy of Science, a Univers
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-06-21 Research News Researchers studying the molecular basis of long-term potentiation (LTP) have typically focused on the role of NMDA glutamate receptor, but two papers published in the June 11 issue of Science elucidate the role of the other glutamate recept
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-06-17 Research News A 1997 study indicated that Alzheimer's patients who carried one or both alleles that code for the E4 form of apolipoprotein had more severe neurodegeneration than did patients who carried only alleles coding for the E3 form of the prot
INTERVIEWS 1999-06-15 Interviews ARF: Your work, although concentrating upon pathological states, seems applicable to both normal and disease-related biology. Is there a particular hypothesis which drives your work? KD: When you look at an AD brain at post-mortem, the most obv
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-06-08 Research News The "cholinergic hypothesis" of cognition places emphasis on the role of cholinergic neurons in the basal forebrain and their projections to cortical areas. This hypothesis is based to a large extent on findings that this system is
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-06-01 Research News Hopes have been raised that drugs which inhibit the proinflammatory COX-2 enzyme could be effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis and perhaps also Alzheimer's disease, which many scientists think is exacerbated by inflammatory respon
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-05-06 Research News Last year Deborah Blacker, Rudolph Tanzi and their colleagues reported finding a strong association between a deletion of exon 18 in the gene for α2 macroglobulin (A2M) and Alzheimer's disease. The odds ratio was 3.56, comparable to the
WEBINAR 1999-05-05 Peter Nelson, with Dennis Selkoe, John Hardy, and Alain Israel, led this live discussion on 5 May 1999. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Transcript: Live discussion with Dennis Selkoe,