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Wonder if and how green tea can help fight Alzheimer’s disease? Chemistry & Chemical Biology’s Giuseppe Melacini is uncovering clues about the ways that the components of green tea may interfere with the Alzheimer’s disease process. Recent pre-clinical research suggests that the green tea compound known as EGCG interferes with the formation of toxic assemblies or oligomers, one of the prime suspects in the early steps of the molecular cascade that leads to cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s patients. Better understanding of these mechanisms will help with the development of future treatments. The work was featured on the cover of a recent issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/article/breaking-down-alzheimers-green-tea-extract-delivers-molecular-punch-to-disrupt-formation-of-neurotoxic-species/