While healthy transthyretin moves hormones through blood and spinal ... of other small and unstable proteins -- including the amyloid-beta peptide that builds up in the brain in Alzheimer's ...

Brain inflammation, while a crucial part of the body's immune response, takes on a detrimental role in Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers injected mouse brains with a growth hormone tainted with amyloid-β, a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, and saw it accumulate. The study, published yesterday (December 13) in ...

The factor that tips you over the edge from being at risk for a disease to actually developing the disease is not always ...

Researchers discovered higher levels of tau and amyloid beta — both hallmarks ... poor or reduced REM sleep may raise levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which can impair the hippocampus ...

Five U.K. patients treated with human growth hormone from cadaveric pituitary ... "However, the recognition of transmission of amyloid-beta pathology in these rare situations should lead us ...