{"id":75388,"date":"2018-01-18T09:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/distinct-types-of-amyloid-beta-prion-strains-in-alzheimers-disease-discovered"},"modified":"2018-01-18T09:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T17:42:34","slug":"distinct-types-of-amyloid-beta-prion-strains-in-alzheimers-disease-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/distinct-types-of-amyloid-beta-prion-strains-in-alzheimers-disease-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Distinct Types of Amyloid-beta Prion Strains in Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/distinct-types-of-amyloid-beta-prion-strains-in-alzheimers-disease-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Distinct amyloid-beta prion strains discovered in different variants of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a research team led by Carlo Condello presented their results from a study of the sliced brain fragments of deceased Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) patients. It appears different amyloid-beta prions are uniquely associated with different AD variants [1].<\/p>\n<p><strong>A primer on Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AD is a chronic neurodegenerative disease affecting about 5% of the population above 65 years of age\u2014the time when the first symptoms usually manifest. It is estimated to be the cause of up to 70% of all cases of dementia, which according to WHO projections, by 2050 will be around 115 million.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/distinct-amyloid-beta-prion-strains\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/distinct-amyloid-beta-prion-strains\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distinct amyloid-beta prion strains discovered in different variants of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a research team led by Carlo Condello presented their results from a study of the sliced brain fragments of deceased Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) patients. It appears different amyloid-beta prions are uniquely associated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}