Abstracto

In Alzheimer's Disease, a protective signal is sent between the brain's supporting cells.

Shawn Kruger

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a serious and common neurodegenerative disorder in which brain cells and synaptic connections between neuronal cells are lost, resulting in progressive cognitive deterioration. The existence of disease associated aggregates of diverse proteins in the brain, such as plaques formed of the protein amyloid-(A) and neuro fibrillary tangles produced of the protein tau, is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer disease. The most frequent kind of dementia in elderly adults is Alzheimer's Disease (AD).