Wednesday, May 07, 2008

New target for Alzheimer's disease identified

Source: Gladstone Institutes
Date: May 7, 2008

Summary:

In a new study, published in today’s Journal of Neuroscience, researchers in the laboratory of Lennart Mucke, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND), have determined in mouse models that modulating the activity of enkephalin peptides in the brain might reduce the cognitive deficits seen in Alzheimer’s disease.