British scientists (University of Sheffield) recently made a really unique discovery: the drug, actively used for complex treatment of liver disease, is able to arrest the development of disease Alzheimer's! Provedennye studies have shown - ursodeoxycholic acid contained in a medication improves the functionality of the mitochondria, and because it is a violation of their work provoked senile dementia.
Why is this so important?
Alzheimer's disease - one of the most common forms of dementia by age or dementia syndrome to date. And the disease begins almost imperceptibly, but progress quickly. At the very early stages of a patient suddenly found short-term memory disorder, then gradually "turn off" long-term memory. Then it breaks down, suffer cognitive function. The patient is no longer navigate the space and environment, not caring for themselves. His condition is getting worse and leads eventually to death.
Mitochondria: how they relate with dementia?
Mitochondria plays the main role in the matter of life and death of brain neurons. That is the way they handle their deaths, as well as the energy metabolism. Mitochondrial dysfunction develops long before a person has first syndromes of Alzheimer's disease. And if it is possible in time to establish control over these pathological changes, senile dementia can be suppressed, as they say, "on the vine".
As ursodeoxycholic acid struggling with Alzheimer's?
The above experiment proved that ursodeoxycholic acid prevents mitochondrial dysfunction. A drug for the treatment of liver, this acid comprising changing their shape. So we can assume that and other drugs, as part of which there is this acid can be effectively used against dementia.
Home, it found: drug active in the cells of patients with sporadic (occasional), Alzheimer, dementia syndrome. Plus the drug is already used to treat people, and therefore it without any problems and quickly put in therapy of dementia.
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