Drugs designed to eliminate plaques made of beta-amyloid have a fatal problem: they need to enter the brain and remove the plaques without attacking healthy brain cells. New research from the ...

Sirtuins appear to activate pathways that steer the brain away from the formation of plaque and tangled proteins.” Dr. Cairns and her colleagues hypothesized that certain compounds might help ...

In this article, we understand what causes high cholesterol and plaque formation inside the heart arteries, followed by ways to manage it. A poor diet is one of the main culprits of high cholesterol.

such as Porphyromonas gingivalis, a bacterium that has been linked with Alzheimer’s and gum disease, also cause plaque formation in their brain models.

Gum disease linked to build-up of Alzheimer's plaque formation: Study(Pexels) In their paper, "Microglial cell response to experimental periodontal disease," published in the Journal of ...

Here, the authors show that downregulation of Zeb1 in macrophages promotes lipid accumulation and atherosclerotic plaque formation while its restoration with macrophage-targeted nanoparticles ...