Är Alzheimer en slags diabetes?

published Nov 30, 2005 09:21 by admin ( last modified Nov 30, 2005 09:21 )

Det föreslås av forskare vid Rhode Island Hospital och Brown Medical School.

"Insulin disappears early and dramatically in Alzheimer's disease. And many of the unexplained features of Alzheimer's, such as cell death and tangles in the brain, appear to be linked to abnormalities in insulin signaling. This demonstrates that the disease is most likely a neuroendocrine disorder, or another type of diabetes,"

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