Monday, 15 August 2011

Causes Of Alzheimer's Disease

Scientists believe that most people with Alzheimer's disease is caused by a combination of genes, lifestyle and environmental factors that influence the time of the brain.

Less than 5 percent of the time, Alzheimer's disease is caused by specific genetic changes that ensure that a person will develop the disease.

While the causes of Alzheimer's disease is not yet fully understood, its effects on the brain is ready. Alzheimer's disease, damage and kill brain cells. Brains affected by Alzheimer's disease has many fewer cells and many connections between cells surviving unless not a healthy brain.

As the brain cells more death, Alzheimer's disease leads to a significant narrowing of the brain. When doctors examine the brain tissue of Alzheimer's under the microscope, you see two types of anomalies that are considered characteristic of the disease:

Plates. These clumps of a protein called beta amyloid can damage and destroy brain cells in several ways, including interfering with the cell-cell communication. Although the ultimate cause of death of brain cells in Alzheimer's disease is unknown, management of abnormal beta-amyloid is a prime suspect.

Tangles. Cells of the brain depends on domestic support and transport system for transporting nutrients and other essential materials for the entire length of extensions. This system requires the normal structure and activity of the protein tau. Alzheimer's, threads of tau protein in an abnormal tangle of Twist, which lead to failure of the transport system. This failure is also heavily involved in the decline and death of brain cells.


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