TOKYO — Alzheimer's disease could be obstructed by plasmalogen.

TOKYO — Alzheimer's disease could be obstructed by plasmalogen, contained in seafood of the like kind as the sea squirt, a team of researchers at Tohoku University has discovered.

Because the efficiency was proved in animal experiments, a company appoint up by the head of the form into groups plans to market tablets containing plasmalogen possibly by the agency of next year.

Alzheimer's disease causes strict memory loss and is consideration to be caused by the death of firmness cells in the brain.

The team l by means of Professor Teruo Miyazawa, who specializes in forage chemistry at the Graduate institute of Agricultural Science at the university, experimented with confined apartment cultures and discovered plasmalogen obstructs the death of nerve solitary abode; squalids

It had already been known that plasmalogen in the brains of those with Alzheimer's decreases by dint of about 30 percent, but its function had not been clarified.

Miyazawa f plasmalogen to rats with Alzheimer's disease and had them