Re:More evidence emerges for 'transmissible Alzheimer's' theory
by ekianjo on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:40PM
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There is some ongoing research as well to establish whether or not AZ is a form a brain diabetes. But at this stage the amyloid hypothesis is still considered the most probable.
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Re:More evidence emerges for 'transmissible Alzheimer's' theory
by JamesBarney on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @11:27PM
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My understanding was that they weren't separate hypotheses but one. I thought amyloid beta interrupted insulin signalling which then lead to all of the downstream effects of neuroinflammation, cell death, oxidative stress, glutamate toxicity, etc etc.
But I've never been super clear on the type 3 diabetes explanation.