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Skin Cancer Drug Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms In Mice

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An anonymous reader writes "A skin cancer drug may rapidly reverse pathological, cognitive and memory deterioration associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to new research published on Thursday. Bexarotene, a drug that is currently used to combat T cell lymphoma, appeared to reverse plaque buildup and improve memory in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's disease by reducing levels of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain that cause mental deficits in Alzheimer's disease."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Skin+Cancer+Drug+Reverses+Alzheimer's+Symptoms+In+Mice%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzYrdX9"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F12%2F02%2F10%2F2120255%2Fskin-cancer-drug-reverses-alzheimers-symptoms-in-mice%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/2120255/skin-cancer-drug-reverses-alzheimers-symptoms-in-mice?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/2120255/skin-cancer-drug-reverses-alzheimers-symptoms-in-mice?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9iJax5PaeJ8OUSv4iu2dDLWVKOo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9iJax5PaeJ8OUSv4iu2dDLWVKOo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9iJax5PaeJ8OUSv4iu2dDLWVKOo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9iJax5PaeJ8OUSv4iu2dDLWVKOo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/xrQFqszXQ-Q" height="1" width="1"/

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