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Alzheimer Disease
Common painkillers may offer protection
March 31st, 2003
In a breakthrough study, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) scientists have found that common painkillers such as ibuprofen and naproxen may actually dissolve the brain lesions - or amyloid plaques - that are one of the definitive hallmarks of Alzheimer disease. The findings are reported in the March 31, 2003, issue of Neuroscience. Principal investigator Jorge R. Barrio, professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has used FDDNP, a new chemical marker developed in his laboratory at UCLA, to visually zero in on the brain lesions present in Alzheimer disease. He discovered that...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2003-03-31)
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