Reelin and Dopamine Are Essential Components for Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease
A protein called Reelin keeps appearing in the brain that fights aging and Alzheimer’s disease. A protein that helps shape the brain early in life also appears to protect the organ from Alzheimer’s and other diseases associated with aging. Japanese and European neuroscientists have found that injecting large amounts of dopamine into the brains of mice predisposed to developing Alzheimer’s leads to accelerated production of an enzyme responsible for breaking down molecules of the pathogenic protein beta-amyloid.