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The first disease-modifying drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's could soon be developed, thanks to a research group at the University of California Irvine.
The researchers found that AF267B, an analogue of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, decreased plaque and tangle formations in the brains of mice engineered to display the symptoms of Alzheimer's, thus improving memory and learning. The brains of Alzheimer's patients show a large loss of the neurons that produce acetylcholine.
This is the first time a drug has demonstrated the ability to tackle the beta-amyloid protein lesions that are thought by some to cause Alzheimer's disease.

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