New pathway in Alzheimer’s disease provides earlier target for potential therapies – Medical Xpress

Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified a new target in development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that could lead to therapies focused on treating the neurodegenerative condition early in its progression.
The discovery helps bolster a promising approach to AD research: finding and manipulating processes earlier in the disease’s development with hopes of slowing its advance.
“This is a missing part of the puzzle,” said Xin Qi, a professor in the Department…

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