Summary: By pursuing the idea of injecting antibodies into Alzheimer's patients in order to attack amyloids that cause issues, it's possible that if these vaccines are administered early enough in the disease, the antibodies can attack the disease and prevent it.
Key Facts:
"Now, scientists working with mice report that antibodies tailor-made to attack amyloid can wipe it out and reverse an experimental version of Alzeimer's disease if the intervention begins early enough."
"The course of events suggest that there is an ongoing cycle of manufacture and disposal of amyloid in the brain, and that this cycle becomes imbalanced in Alzheimer's patients."
"Even so, the vaccination might have had some benefit. Swiss researchers reported at an Alzheimer's meeting in Philadelphia in July that some patients who had been given the vaccine developed high antibody concentrations. Two years after receiving injections, these people showed less cognitive decline than did patients who had received inert injections."
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