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A UK-led international team of researchers has discovered elemental metallic copper and iron in the human brain for the first time. The team, comprised...
E-Mail A new study unexpectedly identified tiny deposits of elemental copper and iron within the brains of two deceased people with Alzheimer's disease. The findings could help scientists better understand how these elemental metals, which were uncovered in the cores of amyloid plaques, contribute to neurodegenerative diseases and could point to a target for alternative Alzheimer's therapies. While enzymes and proteins containing positively charged copper and iron ions have been known to control key processes in the human brain, little has been known about how the organ mineralizes iron and...
Discovery of elemental metals in brain raises hope for Alzheimer’s treatments 09/06/2021, 7:02 pm Scientists using intense X-ray beams at the Diamond Light Source synchrotron facility in Harwell, Oxfordshire, to examine amyloid plaques in brain tissue (Neil Telling/James Everett/Keele University) An “unexpected” discovery of tiny metal deposits in their native form in the human brain has raised hopes of potential new therapies for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. An international team of researchers, led by experts at Keele University, have found nanoparticles – ar...