Korean researchers tomatoes may be used to create a vaccine against Alzheimer's disease. Tests on mice showed that the edible vaccine induces a strong immune response against the toxic beta amyloid protein, which plays an important role in the development of the disease, according to the journal Biotechnology Letters. Alzheimer's disease - causes a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, dementia. One of the main symptoms of the disease is the formation of plaques of beta-amyloid protein in the brain. It is assumed that the decrease of the protein, eg, by the immune system may attack to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Specialists of the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and biotehnalogy introduced gene of beta-amyloid in the tomato genome. Received the vaccine every week for three weeks, fed 15-month-old mice were. A second course of vaccination was carried out in seven weeks. Subsequent blood tests in mice showed a strong immune response to the formation of antibodies to the beta-amyloid protein. Despite the fact that the vaccine is not examined reduces the number of plaques in the brains of animals, a new approach to keep promising. They are currently working on a vaccine plant, the more powerful immune response can develop cause.
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