Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Human drug trials explore strange link between gum disease bacteria and Alzheimers

There is a hypothesis that the bacteria that causes gum disease can travel into the brain ...

A provocative new study, published in the prestigious journal Science Advances, is suggesting the same bacteria responsible for gum disease is also the primary pathogenic cause of Alzheimer's disease. Not only that, but a new drug developed to inhibit these bacterial toxins and treat Alzheimer's is moving into major human clinical trials later this year.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2S5vJmz

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