Nasal spray clears Alzheimer's brain plaques
5th Sep 2005, 15:10 GMT
A new nasal vaccine for Alzheimer's disease has cleared plaques from the brains of affected mice and will be tested in humans in 2006. The drug activates cells in the brain known as microglia, whose job it is to ingest unwanted material. In this c...
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