Treatment with vitamin C dissolves toxic protein aggregates in mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
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“When we treated brain tissue from mice suffering from Alzheimer’s disease with vitamin C, we could see that the toxic protein aggregates were dissolved. Our results show a previously unknown model for how vitamin C affects the amyloid plaques,” says Katrin Mani, reader in Molecular Medicine at Lund University.