Foods which rich of cholesterol may be as harmful as Alzheimer's, as shown in a study in rats, and that cholesterol may cause brain damage. The study, published in the journal "Molecular Cellular Neuroscience," was performed on rats by researchers from the Laboratory of Psychiatry and Experimental Alzheimer's Research.
To do this study, male rats fed with normal food 6 months but with a 5% cholesterol. After 5 months, damages sought or possible behavioral pathological markers similar to those of Alzheimer's patients. The result of this study led them to believe that the results hipercolesterolema chronic inflammation, memory loss, cholinergic dysfunction and increased beta-amyloid protein. All these symptoms also occur in Alzheimer's patients.
Of course, and although it is thought that cholesterol may participate in the development of Alzheimer's disease does not prove to be the only factor involved in this process. Despite this, there are many hypotheses that Alzheimer's could be a vascular disease.
Alzheimer's is an important disease that mainly affects older people who lose consciousness, mental ability and also seriously affects people's memory.
Finding the factors leading to this disease could be the beginning to create effective drugs to fight effectively against Alzheimer's and make life easier for the millions of people suffering from this disease and people around them. An efficient new drug to cure Alzheimer's would be quality of life for several million people. So far, this is just one more study, a small step to be followed with further research on this line.
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