Electro-Medicine : Biological Physics – Catching Calcium Waves Could Provide Alzheimers Insights – Video

Posted: Published on January 19th, 2012

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17-01-2012 07:20 Research @ http://www.youtube.com youtu.be youtu.be youtu.be youtu.be youtu.be youtu.be New insights on what causes Alzheimers disease could arise from a recent discovery made by bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego. The finding concerns the infamous amyloid beta peptides (A?)—fragments of which form plaques thought to play a role in Alzheimers disease. The bioengineers found that amyloid beta peptides (A?) spontaneously trigger calcium waves in purified cultures of astrocyte cells extracted from the cortex region of rat brains and grown in the lab.

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