Patricia “Gail” Whyte was born March 9, 1940 in Chicago to Harvey and Mary (nee Whalen) Burgie. She died November 24, 2020, at the Lutheran Home in Arlington Heights after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease complicated with progressive aphasia. Gail was a hard worker, a person who always kept herself ...
January 8, 2021
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an age-related disease of the central nervous system. Its prevalence has become a major concern in both developed and developing countries. There are 5.4 million AD patients in the United States; 96% of them are age 65 and older, but no disease-modifying drug is available except ...
January 5, 2021
Alva Eugene Warner died on July 6, 2020 AT 9:03PM surrounded by wife Doreen, children Colwyn, Adella , Lisle, David and dedicated caregivers. After completing his primary education at the then Water Street Boys School he apprenticed in the Plumbing trade, worked in a retail clothing outlet followed by Garment Manufacturing ...
July 15, 2020
This gene provides the instructions for making the presenilin 2 protein. Like presenilin 1, presenilin 2 is part of the gamma-secretase complex. Among other things, the gamma-secretase complex cuts the amyloid precursor protein into small pieces. One of the resulting pieces is amyloid beta.
April 24, 2023
2021 We now have data showing that with aging, there is a slightly decreased number of neurons within the most vulnerable neuron population in mice with the risk allele of APOE. We also find that vulnerable neurons show markers of stress. This is pretty remarkable, since this occurs in the absence of ...
April 13, 2020
Sex differences are highly relevant to the study of Alzheimer’s disease where any difference between how the disease manifests in women vs. men could offer clues about the targets at which to aim treatments. Decades of research indicate that having the ApoE4 gene allele, the strongest genetic risk for late-onset ...
October 6, 2019
http://100Days100Courses.com “It’s either a golfer’s dream or a golfer’s nightmare.” That’s the phrase one local golfer is using to describe his upcoming cross-country road trip that will see him play 100 golf courses in 100 days, a distance of 9,368 miles from the first course to the last, in hopes of raising ...
March 4, 2019
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July 24, 2020
October 20, 2021
Year 2 aims: Diseases that affect learning and memory are of fundamental biological importance and are among the most challenging biomedical problems of our time. We recently demonstrated that compounds that inhibit amyloid precursor protein (APP) dimerization and enhance APP phosphorylation reduce the levels of Abeta, the peptide responsible for the ...
September 29, 2015
