Revista de la Facultad de Medicina (Jan 2007)
Insulin and Alzheimer disease: type 3 diabetes?
Abstract
Alzheimer Disease is a neurodegenerative disease of central nervous system whose incidence will increase in next years. Recent investigations relate alzheimer with insulin signaling defects in neurons. Is alzheimer Disease a type 3 diabetes? In this communication write a brief article about evidences from this alzheimer‘s disease model.