Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Alzheimer Patients Treated With Gantenerumab Appear To Have Lower Brain Amyloid Levels
According to a report published Online First by Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, treating Alzheimer patients with the medication gantenerumab seems to reduce brain amyloid levels, however, due to the small study size, more clinical trials are needed. Background information in the article states that: "Genetic and neuro-pathological evidence suggests that the accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides in the brain is a key event in the patho-physiology of Alzheimer disease (AD)...
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