Revista de la Facultad de Medicina (Jan 2007)

Insulin and Alzheimer disease: type 3 diabetes?

  • Andrés Jagua Gualdrón,
  • Vladimir Ávila Ávila

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 55, no. 1
pp. 66 – 70

Abstract

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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.

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