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Discovery Sheds Light on Why Alzheimer’s Drugs Rarely Help

July 1, 2013
A study at UCLA determined that Alzheimer’s drugs are rarely effective because they target beta amyloid plaque accumulation in the brain, rather than oligomers, which are beta amyloid clumps that appear decades before plaque and have a different molecular structure.
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