Norman Swann

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Health Report · Monday 04 January 2010 · 3 Jan 2010 podcast

They're usually not smoked. voice-verified

Men are often married and women are often not married. voice-verified

Then they're often not obese. voice-verified

There are key features here. voice-verified

What do you think is going on? voice-verified

Well, if we voice-verified

They're just getting later than everybody else. voice-verified

Absolutely. voice-verified

Now you use monkeys, you're using non-human primates as well as an animal model because you believe there's only a limit to what you can get from mice. voice-verified

That's true, voice-verified

And you've looked at the inflammation caused by the amyloid. voice-verified

And is that the same sort of inflammation that's in humans as well? voice-verified

talking about earlier, this free-floating stuff, before it becomes plaques, which seems to cause havoc. voice-verified

That's right. voice-verified

There's a good reason for the inflammation then, because it activates the immune system to chomp voice-verified

So voice-verified

try and prevent or treat, it's got to be very sophisticated that's really targeted on just the bad arm, not the good one. voice-verified

So there's various very expensive $40,000, $50,000 a year drugs now on the market for voice-verified

rheumatoid arthritis and for psoriasis and perhaps a couple of other things which so the holy grail here or the pot of gold for the drug company is that this might actually be effective in Alzheimer's voice-verified

Changa Zgula is Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Laboratory for Cognitive and Molecular Morphometry at the Alzheimer's Disease Centre at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. voice-verified

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