Researchers find protein that makes long-term memory possible
... hours. Long term memory refers to the ability to remember things for more than a day--sometimes for many years. Scientists have suspected that BDNF played a role in memory, but had not known whether it exerted its effect directly, or in combination with other substances. The first clue came in 1996....Anti-cholesterol drug treats Alzheimer's disease in mice
...t improvement in the animals' ability to learn and remember the location of a submerged platform in a water tank--a standard test of learning and memory. Cholesterol-lowering statins are now being tested as a means of reducing the risk of Alzheimer's, said the researchers, although "It remains to be shown tha...T cell's memory may offer long-term immunity to leishmaniasis
... of most vaccines, to 'teach' the immune system to remember a pathogen, just doesn't work with leishmaniasis. "We have found that a new form of long-term memory T cell will, if stimulated, turn into the sort of helper T cells that mediate the immune response. We believe that, if we can stimulate the expans...