think health science: a leap toward a treatment for alzheimer's disease
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Dr. Veronica Galvan's accompanying slide presentation from TPR's Think Health Science event on 9/9/15.TRANSCRIPT
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A Leap Toward a Treatment For Alzheimer’s Disease Veronica Galvan PhD Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies and the Department of Physiology “Think Health Science” Texas Public Radio University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
September 9, 2015
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Cognitive impairment, personality changes, dementia
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
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Alzheimer’s disease
Amyloid-beta plaques Tau tangles
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Ongoing clinical trials § Amyloid-beta § Tau § Inflammation § Insulin resistance § Prevention in Familial Alzheimer’s
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Neurological diseases of aging
Increasing age
Alzheimer’s
Parkinson’s
Normal
Vascular dementia
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Risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease
How important is aging?
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Aging overwhelms all other risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease
How important is aging?
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How important is aging? Impact of slowing brain aging
on Alzheimer’s disease
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The rate of aging is controlled by specific genes
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Can we block diseases of aging like Alzheimer’s by slowing down aging?
Increasing age
Alzheimer’s
Parkinson’s
Normal
Vascular dementia
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nature International weekly journal of science
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nature International weekly journal of science
SCIENCE Breakthrough of the year
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Alzheimer’s Parkinson’s
Vascular dementia Frontotemporal dementia
Dementia with Lewy Body
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Unaffected sibling
A drug that slows aging treats established Alzheimer’s memory loss
Unaffected Sibling,
Rapamycin
AD Mouse
AD Mouse,
Rapamycin
Lear
ning
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mem
ory
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Normal sibling Alzheimer’s not treated
A drug that slows aging restores brain blood flow
Alzheimer’s treated with rapamycin
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A drug that slows aging restores brain blood flow
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Brain blood flow is critical for brain function
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Increasing brain blood flow reduces amyloid-beta accumulation
Control
Rapamycin
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A drug that slows down aging stops the progression of Alzheimer’s in mice
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A drug that slows down aging blocks Vascular Dementia in mice
Control
Rapamycin
Normal VaD VaD + rapamycin
Mem
ory
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A drug that slows aging restores brain blood flow in very old rats
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A drug that slows aging restores brain activity in very old rats
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Slowing brain aging
Increasing age
Alzheimer’s
Parkinson’s
Normal
Vascular dementia
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to treat Alzheimer’s
Increasing age
Alzheimer’s
Parkinson’s
Normal
Vascular dementia
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Drugs to block age-associated neurological diseases
Rapamycin Rapalogs TOR inhibitors in development
Solanezumab Gantanerumab Aducanumab
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1 mg/day Dr. Dean Kellogg, personal communication
SA GRECC San Antonio Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center
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Understanding brain aging to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s and related dementias
Knowledge = Knowledge Research = Power to treat and cure
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Basic,Translational and Clinical Biomedical Research
Making lives better