Revolutionary drug ‘could reverse damage’ caused by Alzheimer’s by allowing nerve cells to mend themselves, scientists say
Drug codenamed NVG-291 could reverse the damage caused by Alzheimer’s It removes a natural barrier in the body that prevents nerve cells from repairing 850,000 people in UK suffer from dementia, more than half have Alzheimer’s By Stephen Adams for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 01:02 BST, 3 October 2021 | Updated: 01:05 BST, 3 October 2021
Scientists believe a revolutionary new drug that allows nerve cells to mend themselves could transform the treatment of Alzheimer’s.
Unlike current treatments for the neurological condition, the drug, codenamed NVG-291, works by removing a natural barrier in the body that prevents nerve cells from repairing.
Paul Brennan, chief executive of Canadian biotech firm NervGen, said the drug not only offered the prospect of reversing the damage caused by Alzheimer’s but also of giving people paralysed through spinal cord injury the chance of walking again.
An estimated 850,000 people in the UK suffer from dementia, of whom more than half have Alzheimer’s. Pictured, shutterstock of a depressed man
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