Alzheimer’s disease long known for the toxin clumps and tangles that build up in the brain may also be caused by the failure of a natural system that protects brain cells (Johnson, 2014). Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth overall primary cause of death in the world, troubling more than five million people in United States and also one of the most frequent forms of disorder found in our generation today, affecting daily functions of an individual’s life.
The Boston Globe recently published an article called Protein may guard against Alzheimer’s disease, by Carolyn Y. Johnson (2014). A new study indicates that a protein called REST can help the brain from neurodegeneration. REST increases in older adults but is lower in victims infected by Alzheimer’s. “Individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, a degenerative brain disorder that involves a decline in memory, have an acetylcholine deficiency” (King, Griguoli & Cherubini, 2012). According to Bruce yankner, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, “it’s an amazing idea that neurons that you’re born with will function for 100 years or more, in a very high-stress situation . . .” Cells made from Acetylcholine are often stored in the spinal cord and the brain, help Alzheimer’s disease by decreasing the effects of memory loss and short attention span.
“The brain is a pretty tough organ and we should strive to find out what makes it so tough and capitalize on this” said Yankner (2014) The brain consists of two types, healthy brain and unhealthy brain; in each brain there is a set of REST protein included within which often deals with Neurodegeneration. In the healthy brain, REST production and cause neuroprotective. In the unhealthy brain, low REST production causes neurodegenerati...
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...4). Johnson also states that REST mechanism for protecting brain cells is very basic to survival, because it had been conserved … during evolution”. Johnson tells us “Perhaps if researchers could understand patient’s natural levels of REST, they could target treatments to people based on whether they have high or low levels of the protein” said Li-Huei (2014). The REST protein follows a pattern; in the healthy brain it reaches neuroprotevtive. The REST production is normal; in the Unhealthy brain it reaches neurodegenration, the REST production is less. In Alzheimer’s disease, neurodegenerative is a leading cause because it lacks REST production... Most of the neurodegenerative diseases have no cure.
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