MIAMI: A team of researchers have found a way to prevent the abnormal assembly of beta-amyloid plaques in patients suffering from Alzheimer’s using photosensitisers and blue LED lights. Beta-amyloid is a type of a protein which gets accumulated in the brain of the affected person.
During the research, the team subjected fruit flies to light-induced treatment using blue LED and photosensitisers. The light treatment helped reduce the need for medication and also reduced the symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease in fruit flies. Some of these symptoms include neuronal apoptosis, diminished longevity, synapse, muscle damage and reduced motility.
The unusual folding of beta-amyloids in the brain of the Alzheimer’s patients start to degrade the brain function in them. The researchers knew that stopping the formation of abnormal beta-amyloid structures in the brain at an early stage can help stop disease progression. Therefore, they tried to suppress the abnormal arrangement of beta-amyloids in fruit flies using blue LED lights and photo-excited porphyrin inducers.