Now there is ultrasound technology for removing neurotoxic amyloid plaques from the brain, thanks to the Australian researchers. These are structures that cause Alzheimer’s.
There are two kinds: amyloid plaques (found between neurons and create heavy beta-amyloid molecules) and neurofibrillary tangles (located within neurons of the brain and are thick, impenetrable mass).
Alzheimer’s affect 343,000 Australians and fifty million people on earth. It has no cure or a preventative method. So knowing how to remove defective beta-amyloid and tau proteins from the brain has been had. But now the QBI (Queensland Brain Institute) at the University of Queensland have discovered a relatively good alternative solution.
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According to what these researchers placed in Science Translation Medicine, a therapeutic ultrasound technology is used. It is said to pass non-invasive beams of sound waves into the patient’s brain tissue. And since they rotate very quickly, they can unblock the blood-brain barrier. This is the brain layer that keeps bacteria away and arouses its microglial cells. These are cells that remove brain waste and so they are capable of removing toxic beta-amyloid clumps that cause Alzheimers.
The Australian research team tested their method on mice, and seventy-five percent restored their memory, and none of their brain tissue was hurt. Treated mice were able to pass three memory tests: Recognizing new objects, recalling places they should avoid and a maze test.
As Jurgen Gotz, uttered in a press release, the whole team is happy with their Alzheimer’s treatment invention. He continued to speak of how their new solution changes their understanding of how to cure Alzheimer’s shortly.
The team is set to try their solution on sheep and in 2017 they might do trials in humans.
You can listen to an ABC radio interview with the team here. Original Story: sciencealert.com