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η-amyloid: a recently identified peptide involved in the Alzheimer disease

A team of German and French researchers recently identified a new peptide that could be involved in the Alzheimer disease. The η-amyloid – or eta-amyloid – belongs to the same family as the beta-amyloid involved with the development of the disease. It has escaped notice from researchers for thirty years. According to research teams, its

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Study reveals a protein’s influence on memory and cognitive abilitites on adults

In a recent study that was published in the Nature Medicine journal, American researchers from the University of California in San Francisco have identified the responsability of a protein in the cognitive decline process: as it accumulates in blood with ageing, the protein harms the cognitive functions in the hippocampus, which is a region of

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Polypharmacy and Iatrogenesis: elderly people and their medication

In France, 71% of people aged 50 years old and above take daily mediations; 45.000 people aged 70 years and above have medical prescriptions given by their doctors that exceed 10 different types of medicine per day. In fact, elderly people having several chronic diseases may need various medical prescriptions from different doctors (general practitioner,

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