Non-invasive therapy to reduce the body burden of aluminium in Alzheimer's disease.
@article{Exley2006NoninvasiveTT, title={Non-invasive therapy to reduce the body burden of aluminium in Alzheimer's disease.}, author={Christopher Exley and Olga V. Korchazhkina and Deborah Job and Stanislav Strekopytov and Anthony Polwart and Peter Crome}, journal={Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD}, year={2006}, volume={10 1}, pages={ 17-24; discussion 29-31 } }
There are unexplained links between human exposure to aluminium and the incidence, progression and aetiology of Alzheimer's disease. The null hypothesis which underlies any link is that there would be no Alzheimer's disease in the effective absence of a body burden of aluminium. To test this the latter would have to be reduced to and retained at a level that was commensurate with an Alzheimer's disease-free population. In the absence of recent human interference in the biogeochemical cycle of…
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