Diabetes drug 'significantly reverses memory loss' in mice with Alzheimer's

[Northerner]

A drug developed for diabetes could be used to treat Alzheimer's after scientists found it "significantly reversed memory loss" in mice through a triple method of action.

The research, published in Brain Research, could bring substantial improvements in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease through the use of a drug originally created to treat type 2 diabetes.

Lead researcher Professor Christian Holscher of Lancaster University in the UK said the novel treatment "holds clear promise of being developed into a new treatment for chronic neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180101144803.htm

 

[Amigo]

A drug developed for diabetes could be used to treat Alzheimer's after scientists found it "significantly reversed memory loss" in mice through a triple method of action.

The research, published in Brain Research, could bring substantial improvements in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease through the use of a drug originally created to treat type 2 diabetes.

Lead researcher Professor Christian Holscher of Lancaster University in the UK said the novel treatment "holds clear promise of being developed into a new treatment for chronic neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180101144803.htm

Interesting...I read this and wondered as to the name of the drug but presumably it hasn’t been named yet.

Bit of a worry how clever we are making all these mice with these drugs. They’ll be setting traps for us next or have such good memories, we’ll never catch them!

 

[grovesy]

Many of these mice results don't transfer to us humans.

 

[mikeyB]

Very true grovesy. Nonetheless, these are impressive results, and future human trials of this drug are inevitable, both in diabetes and degenerative brain disease. The sooner the better, in my view. But then I have a vested interest.🙄