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Case Western Reserve researchers reverse Alzheimer's symptoms in mice

Thomas Veil

Thomas Veil

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Case Western Reserve University researchers use skin cancer drug to reverse Alzheimer's symptoms in mice

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Case Western Reserve University researchers have found what may be a new treatment for early-stage Alzheimer's disease. The drug rapidly clears out the sticky plaques that build up in the brains of those with the disease and improves memory and thinking.

But they caution that their stunning results -- total plaque clearance and symptom improvement in a short 72 hours -- need to be put in perspective: They've only tested the drug -- an already approved cancer medication called bexarotene -- in mice. It may be years before the treatment is ready for people, if it proves to work the same way in human trials.
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Understood. Even so -- wow.

As someone whose mother-in-law suffered from Alzheimer's, and who is watching another family member in the early stages -- this is gonna be interesting. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
 
Thomas Veil said:
Understood. Even so -- wow.

As someone whose mother-in-law suffered from Alzheimer's, and who is watching another family member in the early stages -- this is gonna be interesting. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
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I used to work a shhort distance from Case Western, a lot of their medical students worked at the hospital I worked in for a time.

More often than not these promising dicoveries end up being blind alleys, but there is always hope. Developing a truly effective effective (or at least much more effective than currently available) treatment for Alzheimer's would be wonderful.
 
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