Vaccines against brain degeneration

Scientists have said they have found a new vaccine that is able to fight brain-related diseases, especially the common degenerative brain disease in the elderly.

This new vaccine reduces the spread of brain degeneration, first of all in animals. Then, if the results are positive, it will be considered carefully before being applied on the human body.

This dangerous disease has killed many people. It is important that before any new vaccine is available, there is not any medication or treatment that is feasible.

(Photo: Topcancernews) Degenerative brain disease (CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) is a disease discovered by two psychiatrists Hans G. Creutzfeld (1883 - 1964) and Alfons M. Jakob (1884-1931).

The disease makes the brain degenerate leading to death (especially in people aged 50 to 65). The reason is that there is an abnormal protein that enters the brain. After that, they accumulate and destroy the brain, causing dementia, unable to speak, stiff limbs, facial muscles shrinking.

Many research groups in the US and Europe have worked with a variety of vaccines to be able to quickly halt this disease, especially when it is increasingly booming in the elderly.

A sample of Professor Thomas Wisniewski and his colleagues showed that this protein attacks genes and has a bug-like shape.

Medical efforts

A lot of mice have been sucking this vaccine into their mouth for 400 days. As a result, the symptoms of this disease almost disappear, while other mice gradually die from not taking the medicine. Without this vaccine, only within 120 days, the mice were able to develop and develop the disease quickly.

Professor Thomas Wisniewski said that he and his colleagues are studying the process of producing this vaccine so that they can be applied more widely, first on small animals, then on humans.

Speaking at the Institute of Neurology, USA, he explained: 'Finding this vaccine is an important step in protecting and caring for human health. If it proves its ability, it will be used as a useful treatment for people with degenerative brain disease. '

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