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marijuana for alzheimers

2006-10-06 16:16:22.953815+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Marijuana's Key Ingredient Might Fight Alzheimer's:

The active ingredient of marijuana could be considerably better at suppressing the abnormal clumping of malformed proteins that is a hallmark of Alzheimer's than any currently approved drugs prescribed for the treatment of the disease.

Scientists report the finding in the Oct. 2 issue of the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics.

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