Monday, 16 March 2020 10:28

Brain researcher has doubts about the sense of animal experiments Featured

On the basis of his latest genetic studies, the Leipzig brain researcher Prof. Thomas Arendt, Head of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of the Neurodegeneration at the Paul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research has shown that Alzheimer's disease mainly affects brain regions that have developed late in human evolution. Nevertheless, Alzheimer's research is carried out on animals and has so far not led to any medical treatment of humans.

Originalpublikation:
Anne Nitsche, Christian Arnold, Uwe Ueberham, Kristin Reiche, Jörg Fallmann, Jörg Hackermüller, Friedemann Horn, Peter F. Stadler & Thomas Arendt (2020). Alzheimer-related genes show accelerated evolution. Nature 13.03.20. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-020-0680-1

Quelle:
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/alzheimer-forscher-zweifelt-an-sinn-von-tierversuchen.2850.de.html?drn:news_id=1110529