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FTA, though I don't have any more detailed information about the process: > Based on the evidence so far, TEMT looks like it can break up the toxic amyloid-bet
by wereHamster 7y ago
FTA, though I don't have any more detailed information about the process:
> Based on the evidence so far, TEMT looks like it can break up the toxic amyloid-beta and tau proteins that have been extensively linked with Alzheimer's – the waves are apparently able to destabilise the weak hydrogen bonds that hold them together.
- hoseja 7y agoThat sounds like something entirely too unspecific. Amyloid plaques aren't the only thing relying on hydrogen bonds...
- Ensorceled 7y agoMany treatments for many diseases do a lot of harm to stuff that we don't want harmed ... chemotherapy, radiotherapy, most of the thousands of drugs have side effects.
- Bartweiss 7y agoMolecular hydrogen bonding appears to have a medically-interesting effect on cell permeability in the brain, and I'm sure other things. But most hydrogen bond effects are pretty short-lived, while amyloid plaques build up over a long time as the brain fails to remove them as waste. This is obviously hugely preliminary, but it sounds possible that whatever disruption is being caused is at least shorter-term or less destructive than the benefits of counteracting a slow-moving process like Alzheimer's.