Friday, April 10, 2009

Study offers clue to why nonhuman primates do not get Alzheimer's

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U.S. researchers discovered that Pittsburgh Compound B, a radiolabeled compound often used in PET imaging for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's, does not bind to beta amyloid proteins in the brains of nonhuman primates even if they had more of the protein than their human counterparts. This finding could help explain why.......read the whole brief

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