Small molecules have impact on different brain, role in Alzheimer's disease: Study
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Small molecules have impact on different brain, role in Alzheimer's disease: Study

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A recent study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and the VIB-KU Leuven Centre for Brain and Disease Research demonstrates that a little molecule known as microRNA-132 can significantly affect many brain cells and may be related to Alzheimer's disease. Small molecules have impact on different brain, role in Alzheimer's disease: Study Like DNA, RNA is a molecule made up of a number of connected building pieces. While many scientists think that the protein amyloid is the main contributor to Alzheimer's disease, other factors including inflammation and the protein tau Researchers Hannah Walgrave, Amber Penning, Sarah Snoeck, Giorgia Tosoni, and their team, led by Evgenia Salta investigated the effects of microRNA-132 in different cell types. The next step is to examine whether increasing microRNA-132 in neurons and microglia in an Alzheimer's mouse model has any actual effect.

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