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But Dr. Cashman and his colleagues are developing a treatment that will target only a-beta oligomers, using the marker he has found.
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Vancouver researcher Neil Cashman and colleagues have discovered a biomarker on toxic molecules called amyloid-beta a-beta oligomers, which are catalysts in the brain degeneration of Alzheimer's.
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About a decade ago, Elan, a biotechnology company headquartered in Dublin, conducted human trials in the San Francisco Bay area using a vaccine against a-beta molecules.
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He and other researchers at UBC and the University of Sherbrooke have found that selected antibodies will attack a-beta oligomers in cultured nerve cells.
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At the time, researchers concluded that the vaccine activated the immune system's T cells, which attacked a-beta molecules in healthy nerve tissue.
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