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Alzheimer’s Disease remains incurable and difficult to diagnose. Indications are provided by expensive radiological methods, such as computed or magnetic-resonance tomography, reports by family members, or memory tests. However, such indications hardly allow early diagnoses of the disease, and significant brain damage will have occurred by the time the first symptoms of deteriorating short-term memory appear.

Chemists at the TU Darmstadt and pathologists at Darmstadt City Hospital have now developed a highly promising, new method for detecting Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages. They found that deposits of the tau protein that causes mortification of affected brain cells in Alzheimer’s sufferers are detectable on mucous nasal membranes, even before dementia commences.

Prof. Boris Schmidt of the Clemens Schöpf Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry at the TU Darmstadt explained that, “All that was known to date was that the harmful deposits were evident in both brain cells and ocular nerve cells. Diagnoses via retinal scans, where fluorescent dies were supposed to make the offending ocular deposits visible to the examining ophthalmologist, were therefore the preferred method.” In the course of research work on such dies, the TU Darmstadt chemists and pathologist Roland Heyny-von Haußen discovered that they also made deposits on mucous nasal membranes visible. As Prof. Schmidt put it, “We found the typical deposits on nasal Bowman glands, which, among other things, produce nasal secretions.”. Continue to read: tu-darmstadt.de

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Green lipped mussels may trump fish oil for joint health

Extracts from the New Zealand green lipped mussels may benefit joint mobility and reduce pain more than fish oil supplements, report researchers from Poland. Read more: nutraingredients.com

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