Many of us have or had loved ones that has been affected by Alzheimer’s. It is not easy to watch, as your loved one fades away. You know they are still in there and love them regardless. The disconnect is hard to experience, and you can only hope that one day you are not cursed with the same disease. With new studies and research popping up it has become easier to spot the onset of Alzheimer’s. Discovering you have the onset of Alzheimer’s may be hard to hear, but you can be thankful that you have time to prepare, unlike some many others that have passed. A new neurotransmitter gene may have the responsibility of detecting Alzheimer’s. Take a few moments and discover what could be a live changing discovery for yourself or a loved one.
- 1A new Tel Aviv University study identified a gene coding for a protein that turns off neurotransmission signaling, which contributes to Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
- 2The researchers pinpointed a common suspect–the RGS2 gene–by combining genome-wide gene expression profiling of Alzheimer’s disease blood-derived cell lines with data-mining of previously published gene expression datasets.
- 3The new TAU study furthermore proposes that reduced RGS2 expression increases the susceptibility of brain neurons to the potentially damaging effects of AÎ².
Several genes and their protein products are already known to be implicated in Alzheimer’s disease pathology, but RGS2 has never been studied in this context
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