A Protein's Ebb and Flow

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The question is, what is causing the slow elimination of amyloid protein from the brain? Mercury exposure has been strongly implicated as a cause of Alzheimer’s disease:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101115005878/en/Mercury-Linked-Alzheimer’s-Disease
"A very strong component of AD researchers believe that amyloid protein is the cause of AD ... However, this data supports the initial contention from the Haley laboratory that mercury first inhibits enzymes like tubulin, creatine kinase and glutamine synthetase and dramatically affects metabolism. After these inhibitions occur the cell responds to the cytotoxicity by producing and secreting amyloid protein which forms the amyloid plaques observed on brain pathology and used to substantiate the AD diagnosis. To the point, amyloid plaques are the result of AD, not the cause. The cause is exposure to environmental toxicants like Mercury"
http://www.holistic-dentistry.com/artalzeimer.asp
Mercury is the second most toxic element after plutonium. Methyl mercury is more toxic than elemental mercury, and mercury from amalgam is methylated in the mouth. Mercury from amalgam fillings (which are 50% mercury) is the single greatest source of dietary mercury for the general population (World Health Org. 1991). The FDA has a responsibility to ban the use of dental amalgams for once and for all, as have other countries like Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

D. Bennett 1:32PM December 11, 2010

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nellylewis of TX 4:58AM December 11, 2010

is there a connection or similarity between amyloid beta and lipofuscin? do the current treatments for alzheimers affect either of these?

john mayfield of NM 3:21PM December 10, 2010

UCLA scientists and colleagues from UC Riverside and the Human BioMolecular Research Institute have found that a form of vitamin D, together with a chemical found in turmeric spice called curcumin, may help stimulate the immune system to clear the brain of amyloid beta, which forms the plaques considered the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.
The team discovered that curcuminoids enhanced the surface binding of amyloid beta to macrophages and that vitamin D STRONGLY stimulated the uptake and absorption of amyloid beta in macrophages in a majority of patients.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715131558.htm
The research was printed in the Journal Of Alzheimer's, July 2009

Chris Menard of MA 3:03PM December 10, 2010