NEW YORK: Long-term exposure to a toxin produced by blue-green algal blooms can trigger tangles in the brains of animals similar to those seen in the brains of humans with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological conditions, a study has found.
“As far as we are aware, this is the first time researchers have been able to successfully produce brain tangles and amyloid deposits in an animal … through exposure to an environmental toxin,” said the study’s lead author Dr Paul Alan Cox, an ethnobotanist at the Institute for EthnoMedicine…