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Sounds like a sensible next step would be to try and replicate this in animal models (i.e. treat animals with growth hormones extracted from cadavers of same sp
by parsabg 3y ago
Sounds like a sensible next step would be to try and replicate this in animal models (i.e. treat animals with growth hormones extracted from cadavers of same species) to identify the proteins/prions that trigger the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's, which could perhaps be drug targets for at least a subset of AD causes.
- Qem 3y agoIf they still have some samples of this old, corpse-sourced hormone, perhaps they can analyse them to try isolate candidate compounds.
- emayljames 3y agoFor CJD the testing isn't needed, it is established that cows eating processed cow brains caused the outbreak.