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That sounds like something entirely too unspecific. Amyloid plaques aren't the only thing relying on hydrogen bonds...
by hoseja 7y ago
That 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.