Glucose Metabolism: A Sweet Relief of Alzheimer's Disease

Claudia Duran-Aniotz; Claudio Hetz

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.060

Glucose Metabolism: A Sweet Relief of Alzheimer's Disease

Claudia Duran-Aniotz, Claudio Hetz

School of Psychology

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Abstract

Patients and individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease show reduced glucose metabolism in the brain. A new study takes advantage of a fly model of Alzheimer's disease to demonstrate that enhancing glucose uptake in neurons has strong neuroprotective effects involving improved proteostasis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R806-R809
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	26
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.060
State	Published - 12 Sep 2016

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