Study Sheds New Light On Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease

Study Sheds New Light On Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease23 Apr 2013-nbsp;-nbsp;-nbsp;

New light has been shed on how neuronal metabolism relates to the development of Alzheimer's disease in a recent study.

The research was conducted by scientists from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Scientists have known that the disrupted metabolism of sugar, fat, and calcium is part of the process that results in the death of neurons in Alzheimer's disease.

However, for the first time, the experts have revealed how critical parts of the nerve cell that play a part in the cell's energy metabolism function in the early stages of the disease.

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