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3-5-2010 Nicotine tied to Alzheimer's risk
Gepubliceerd op: Mon, 03 May 2010 11:40:21 +0200 |
New Scientist, 14 April 2010
Smoking could predispose people to dementia, not protect them as has been suggested in the past. This is the conclusion from lab experiments in which rats with brain plaques developed further symptoms of Alzheimer's when given nicotine.
In Alzheimer's disease, the brain becomes riddled with amyloid protein plaques and tangles of tau proteins. Low doses of nicotine have been shown to reduce the number of plaques in rats, but |
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