IL33 and middle-age aging spurt implicated in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease

Written by Francesca Lake

Research resulting from a collaboration between researchers at the School of Dentistry and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern School of Medicine (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA) has changed our understanding of how the brain ages, providing an insight into how we might be able to detect, and possibly treat, late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) decades prior to symptom onset. Late-onset sporadic AD is responsible for approximately 95% of all AD cases, and occurs after the age of 65. By the time symptoms are apparent a large amount of neurons have already been...

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