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Vital Signs: New Discovery Could Lead To Possible Alzheimer’s Treatments

KERA | By Sam Baker
Published November 18, 2013 at 12:26 AM CST
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Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and its progression largely focuses on plaque buildup in the brain. But researchers at U-T Southwestern Medical Center and Texas Health Presbyterian think they’ve hit on another possibility: The role the immune system may play in both Alzheimer’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis. Dr. Nancy Monson, an immunologist at UT Southwestern, explains in this week’s edition of KERA’s Vital Signs.

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Health & WellnessAlzheimer's DiseaseNeurology & Brain HealthMultiple Sclerosisspinal fluidTexas Health Presbyterian HospitalUT Southwestern Medical CenterVital Signs
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Sam Baker
Sam Baker is KERA's senior editor and local host for Morning Edition. The native of Beaumont, Texas, also edits and produces radio commentaries and Vital Signs, a series that's part of the station's Breakthroughs initiative. He also was the longtime host of KERA 13’s Emmy Award-winning public affairs program On the Record. He also won an Emmy in 2008 for KERA’s Sharing the Power: A Voter’s Voice Special, and has earned honors from the Associated Press and the Public Radio News Directors Inc.
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