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Matti Narkia
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12 Sep 2005 15:12:38 -0700 in article
<[email protected]> "Roman Bystrianyk"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Karen Pallarito, "Scientists discover how fish oil protects the brain",
>Cincinnati Enquirer, September 12, 2005,
>Link:
>http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050912/LIFE07/509120313/1042/LIFE
>
>Louisiana State University scientists say they have discovered how the
>fatty acids found in fish oil help protect the human brain from the
>type of cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease.
>
>Their study shows that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty
>acid found in coldwater fish such as mackerel, sardines and salmon,
>reduces levels of a protein known to cause damaging plaques in the
>brains of Alzheimer's patients.
>
>What's more, the researchers discovered that a derivative of DHA, which
>they dubbed "neuroprotectin D1" (NPD1), is made in the human brain.
>That natural substance plays a key role, too, in protecting the brain
>from cell death, the study showed.
>
>"Now what does this tell us from the point of view of the disease? I
>believe that, obviously, diet is a major issue here," said Dr. Nicolas
>G. Bazan, director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at the
>Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.
>
This seems to refer to the same study,
Lukiw WJ, Cui JG, Marcheselli VL, Bodker M, Botkjaer A, Gotlinger K, Serhan
CN, Bazan NG.
A role for docosahexaenoic acid- derived neuroprotectin D1 in neural cell
survival and Alzheimer disease.
J Clin Invest. 2005 Sep 8; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16151530 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
<http://www.jci.org/cgi/content/abstract/JCI25420v1>
<http://www.jci.org/cgi/reprint/JCI25420v1> (full text)
<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16151530>
(full text)
which was already mentioned in another today's thread, "DHA is good for the
brain, helps in Alzheimer's disease". The news report is different though,
and a lot longer. Thanks.
--
Matti Narkia
<[email protected]> "Roman Bystrianyk"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Karen Pallarito, "Scientists discover how fish oil protects the brain",
>Cincinnati Enquirer, September 12, 2005,
>Link:
>http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050912/LIFE07/509120313/1042/LIFE
>
>Louisiana State University scientists say they have discovered how the
>fatty acids found in fish oil help protect the human brain from the
>type of cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease.
>
>Their study shows that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty
>acid found in coldwater fish such as mackerel, sardines and salmon,
>reduces levels of a protein known to cause damaging plaques in the
>brains of Alzheimer's patients.
>
>What's more, the researchers discovered that a derivative of DHA, which
>they dubbed "neuroprotectin D1" (NPD1), is made in the human brain.
>That natural substance plays a key role, too, in protecting the brain
>from cell death, the study showed.
>
>"Now what does this tell us from the point of view of the disease? I
>believe that, obviously, diet is a major issue here," said Dr. Nicolas
>G. Bazan, director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at the
>Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.
>
This seems to refer to the same study,
Lukiw WJ, Cui JG, Marcheselli VL, Bodker M, Botkjaer A, Gotlinger K, Serhan
CN, Bazan NG.
A role for docosahexaenoic acid- derived neuroprotectin D1 in neural cell
survival and Alzheimer disease.
J Clin Invest. 2005 Sep 8; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 16151530 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
<http://www.jci.org/cgi/content/abstract/JCI25420v1>
<http://www.jci.org/cgi/reprint/JCI25420v1> (full text)
<http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16151530>
(full text)
which was already mentioned in another today's thread, "DHA is good for the
brain, helps in Alzheimer's disease". The news report is different though,
and a lot longer. Thanks.
--
Matti Narkia