October 17, 2025
Tube Snake Brain Boogey
Timothy Birdnow
AMDG
The sewer system of neurons apparently are at the root of alzheimers disease, with tiny tubes forming to dump waste products passing along harmful chemicals and bad information to other neurons.
From the article:
With the help of powerful microscopes and live-cell imaging, the team watched as neurons created long, slender extensions between their dendrites -- the branching projections that connect brain cells. These "dendritic nanotubes," as the researchers call them, appeared to shuttle harmful molecules from one neuron to another.
"The long and thin column-like structures of these dendritic nanotubes help transfer information quickly from neuron to neuron," says Kwon. "These nanotubes can transport calcium, ions or toxic molecules, and are ideal for sending information to cells that are far away."
Computer simulations of the process mirrored the early stages of amyloid buildup, or "early amyloidosis," and revealed what the researchers describe as a "nanotubular connectivity layer" that adds a new dimension to how brain cells interact
So the plumbing system is faulty and the cells send out poison to their neighbors. This almost sounds like a prion disease, frankly.
At any rate we now are learning a lot about it and hopefully will develop new and better treatments to end this horrible ‎illness, which first robs it's victims of their dignity and their minds.
AMDG
The sewer system of neurons apparently are at the root of alzheimers disease, with tiny tubes forming to dump waste products passing along harmful chemicals and bad information to other neurons.
From the article:
With the help of powerful microscopes and live-cell imaging, the team watched as neurons created long, slender extensions between their dendrites -- the branching projections that connect brain cells. These "dendritic nanotubes," as the researchers call them, appeared to shuttle harmful molecules from one neuron to another.
"The long and thin column-like structures of these dendritic nanotubes help transfer information quickly from neuron to neuron," says Kwon. "These nanotubes can transport calcium, ions or toxic molecules, and are ideal for sending information to cells that are far away."
Computer simulations of the process mirrored the early stages of amyloid buildup, or "early amyloidosis," and revealed what the researchers describe as a "nanotubular connectivity layer" that adds a new dimension to how brain cells interact
So the plumbing system is faulty and the cells send out poison to their neighbors. This almost sounds like a prion disease, frankly.
At any rate we now are learning a lot about it and hopefully will develop new and better treatments to end this horrible ‎illness, which first robs it's victims of their dignity and their minds.
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