The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $2 million to investigators studying how chronic physiological stress may cause vascular changes and exacerbate the cognitive decline seen in Alzheimer’s disease. Paul Chantler, PhD, an associate professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine, and his team are also using animal models to investigate how xanthine oxidase — a naturally occurring enzyme — can contribute to cellular stress and possibly damage blood vessels in the brains of…
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