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TU Braunschweig-led team probes herpesvirus role in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
A research team led by Technische Universität Braunschweig is investigating whether dormant herpesviruses, together with brain inflammation involving nerve cells, could favour Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
Why it matters: A Technische Universität Braunschweig-led research team is testing a new hypothesis on how Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease arise.
A research team led by Technische Universität Braunschweig is examining how herpesviruses lying dormant in the body may interact with inflammation to favour Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, according to a release distributed via the idw science news service.
The work rests on a new hypothesis about the origin of neurodegenerative brain diseases that focuses on herpesviruses and on the role nerve cells play in chronic inflammation in the brain.
The release presents the research as opening new perspectives for prevention and therapy.
Editor’s view
Scott James, Research and Innovation Editor
The Braunschweig-led team is working with a hypothesis rather than a confirmed cause; if the link between dormant herpesviruses and brain inflammation holds, the release presents it as a route to new prevention and therapy approaches for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
