PHILADELPHIA: A protein called neuronal pentraxin-2 may delay memory loss.
A study involved three groups of people from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative – those without Alzheimer’s disease, those with mild cognitive dysfunction or memory problems, and those with full-scale Alzheimer’s disease.
Brain images and cerebrospinal fluid samples of the subjects were obtained for data analysis. It was found out that those subjects with increased levels of inflammatory proteins in their cerebrospinal fluid displayed higher memory loss and brain shrinkage over two years…