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. 2016 Sep 12;26(17):R806-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.060.

Glucose Metabolism: A Sweet Relief of Alzheimer's Disease

Claudia Duran-Aniotz  1 , Claudio Hetz  2
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Glucose Metabolism: A Sweet Relief of Alzheimer's Disease

Claudia Duran-Aniotz et al. Curr Biol. .
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Patients and individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease show reduced glucose metabolism in the brain. A new study takes advantage of a fly model of Alzheimer's disease to demonstrate that enhancing glucose uptake in neurons has strong neuroprotective effects involving improved proteostasis.

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