I hope they work their way up to cats because mine never remember that
they've already been fed.....June

On Mar 29, 9:03 am, "Tumbleweed" <thisaccountneverr...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

amyloid protein is a natural one. Then its impossible to do any
vaccine, and is criminal what they are doing with the people hope, LMS

I can see you've had you're hopes raised once too often TW.

This seems to be one of a large number of research projects
that are aiming to break down the amyloid plaques in the brain.
I expect at least one of these projects to succeed in the next
few years in breaking down amyloid without killing the patient.

However it isn't known whether that will halt the progress of
the disease.  We don't know, for example, whether the
processes that produce the amyloid plaques will continue
to operate and produce other kinds of damage, nor do we
know that the formation of the plaques, which clearly appear
to damage the neurons, might possibly be some sort of
molecular defense mechanism that prevents some worse
sort of damage that would occur if the plaques don't form.

One problem with mouse research in this regard is that the
mice don't live as long as humans and whatever ill effects
this vaccine might have might not have time to show up in
mice.  So even if the vaccine benefits mice and benefits
humans in the same way, it's possible that the benefit only
lasts 6 months or a year or so.

Nevertheless.  I'm pleased that this research is ongoing.
It's going to take years and years to figure all this out, but
the only way to do it is one step at a time, starting with test
tubes and moving to mice and then to humans.

If and when I get the disease, I plan to look for clinical trials
like this one and take my chances.  There is a tiny chance
of getting a cure, a larger chance of getting some benefit,
and perhaps a chance of benefitting my children and
everyone else's children who may have the cure by the
time they need it.

   Alan