Potential Alzheimer's Drug Prevents Abnormal Blood Clots in the Brain (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Potential Alzheimer's Drug Prevents Abnormal Blood Clots in the Brain

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Treatment with the compound RU-505 improved the chronic and damaging inflammation (red) in the brains of mice exhibiting Alzheimer's (top), as compared to Alzheimer's mice that went untreated (bottom).

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Strickland Lab, The Rockefeller University

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