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Xenon Gas could Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease: Mouse study

Three researchers in a research lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital pose next to a machine used to deliver Xenon gas
From left: Anesthesiologist Christopher Connor will work with principal investigator Howard Weiner to deliver Xenon gas as part of a BWH clinical trial that builds on Alzheimer’s disease prevention research led by Oleg Butovsky.

Xenon gas inhalation reduced neurodegeneration and boosted protection in preclinical models of Alzheimer’s disease. Most treatments being pursued today to protect against Alzheimer’s disease focus on amyloid plaques and tau tangles that accumulate in the brain, but new research from Mass General Brigham and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis points to a novel — and noble — approach: using Xenon gas...

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