ApoE, a protein 299 amino acids long, plays the role of a
cholesterol transporter and enables neuronal repair by
transporting the necessary fats. This protein is also thought to
be important in other vital processes in the central nervous
system, such as myelination, dendrite growth, and synaptic Many
molecules are certainly involved in the development of
Alzheimer’s, and new candidates are announced regularly in the
media. For example, in 2009 and 2010 alone, there was much
discussion of leptin, a hormone that the body’s fat cells
produce after meals and that causes appetite to decrease. In one
study, the subjects who had the lowest levels of leptin were
shown to be more likely to develop Alzheimer’s. in 2009 and
2010, mouse studies by Rémi Quirion and Jonathan Brouillette
showed that those animals whose gene for transthyretin (TTR) was
less active were more likely to display memory deficits than
those in which this gene was more active. Meanwhile, researchers
at the Buck Institute for Age Research and the C