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New research sheds light on Alzheimer's disease

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New research by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston finds that brain damage experienced by Alzheimer's patients may originate in a form similar to mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

"Our findings open the possibility that some of the sporadic Alzheimer's cases may arise from an infectious process, which occurs with other neurological diseases such as mad cow and its human form, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease," said Claudio Soto, professor of neurology at the medical school. "The underlying mechanism of Alzheimer's disease is very similar to the prion diseases."

Soto added the misshapen protein is able to spread and transform good proteins into bad ones, with the bad proteins accumulating in the brain and killing neuron cells in Alzheimer's patients.

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