Friday, June 7, 2013

Anti-Cancer Drug Reverses Alzheimer's disease | Medical News and Health Information

Anti-Cancer Drug Reverses Alzheimer's disease | Medical News and Health Information: Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health have found that an anti-cancer drug is effective in reversing the memory deficits in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model.

Researchers were able to verify that bexarotene, a drug most commonly used to fight lymphoma, does significantly improve cognitive deficits in mice expressing gene mutations linked to human Alzheimer's disease.

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