Skin testing may reveal Alzheimer's disease
Researchers from the University of San Luis Potosi in Mexico announced that it could detect early symptoms of neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease by testing the skin. They said that it can detect early symptoms of Alzheimer's to take samples of skin and brain tissue because they have the same origin.
The researchers studied 53 people with neurological diseases, samples were taken from the skin tissue and compared them with samples of 12 people do not suffer from neurological diseases.
The researcher said Rodriguez Leyva "The skin test opens up the possibility to see the abnormal proteins in the skin before the onset of symptoms of central nervous system diseases or cognitive deficits."
The Rodguez research in the skin for signs of proteins in the brain that appear in the skin, where the skin and the brain have the same genetic origin. And discovered that these proteins, which go to the development of Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, attacks the brain and be easy prey for the disease.
He added that "the ectoderm generates nervous tissue and skin, and our idea is similar to the idea of a similar program for protein expression. Therefore skin can reflect events that occur in the nervous system. "
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