Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Alzheimer's disease: hyperbaric oxygen proposed as treatment in new study

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Osman Shabir, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sheffield

Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, has long been associated with a build-up of plaques (clumps of protein) in the brain. Scientists in Israel have shown that a type of oxygen therapy can stop new plaques forming and even remove existing plaques in mice with Alzheimer’s.

The scientists used a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease called 5xFAD. The genetically modified mice were treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy to see if they could halt or slow the disease progression.

Hyperbaric…

Lire l'article complet