Health Matters: New Discoveries In The Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease

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Triston Sanders-Medical Anchor

Scientists make a big step in the battle against Alzheimer's Disease.
Doctors with the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida managed to remove amyloid plaques from the brains of mice.

Those plaques are a hallmark of the disease.
Researchers found the plaques clear when they injected a protein called "IL6" to the mice's immune system.

The finding's a surprise, because researchers thought the protein would have actually made the plaques worse.

The hope now is to use these findings to develop a new treatment for people with the degenerative disease.

The research appears in the "Faseb Journal," which The Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology publishes.