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August 17, 1988

SCIENCE

Alzheimer’s
linked to
virus

TORONTO (CP) — Some cases of
Alzheimer's disease may be caused
by an unidentified, slow-acting virus,
say researchers at Yale University in
Princeton, N.J.

A team led by Dr. Elias Manuel
idis, a neuropathologist at tha Yale
school of medicine, say its exper.
iments are the first in 20 years to find
a link between an infectious agent
and Alzheimer's. But they stress
their findings are tentative and need
to be confirmed.

Alzheimer's causes its victims to
lose their memory and suffer de-
mentia, as it slowly destroys their
minds and personalities. More than
2.5 million North Americans are
believed to suffer from the disease.

Manuelidis attributes the mental
disorder to a rare blood-borne virus.
The virus produces changes in brain
cells resembling a rare, progressive
disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease. Although the disease re-
sembles Alzheimer’s, it progresses
differently in the brain.

Manuelidis suggests a genetic
element, possibly triggered by exp-
osure to the slow virus, may cause
people to be susceptible to Al
zheimer’s.

The Yale researchers, who pub-
lished their findings in the July issue
of the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, took human
blood cells from 11 volunteers and
injected them in the brains of
hamsters.

CHECKS VIRUS

They were trying to test the
infectious nature of what they
believed was a virus causing the
disease.

In a release from the National
Institute on Aging, Manuelidis said
all previous attempts to transmit
Alzheimer's failed because research-
ers were using tissue samples
containing a weakened virus from
people in the final stages of the
disease.

So the researchers sought samples
from people who might be in the
early stages of the disease. All 11
volunteers had at least two close
relatives with Alzheimer's.

Nine of them had no evidence of
the disease. Two had mild signs of
mental disorder and later developed
Alzheimer's

White blood cells from the vol
unteers samples were then injected
into hamsters, which were observed
for signs of the disease.

Within one year, cells from five of
the volunteers resulted in brain
degeneration in the hamsters. One
animal was confirmed as having
Alzheimer's.

A second group of hamsters was
inoculated with brain cells taken
from the five infected hamsters. All
hamsters in the second group dev
eloped a more severe form of the
disease.

But experts stress these exper
iments don't indicate Alzheimer's is
transmitted by person-to-person con
tact. Even if a virus is eventually
linked to the disease, research has
found no evidence Alzheimer's is
contagious.

Gurgles
mean
something

REGINA (CP) — The giggles,
gurgles and grins of a toddler with
speech problems are building blocks
for communication, says a speech-
language pathologist.

Parents who respond to those
attempts to communicate can help
their children learn, says Judy Bell,
who works for the Lakehead board of
education in Thunder Bay, Ont.

“We often miss these in chil
dren,’’ Ball said of the eye contact,
gestures and body movement used
by children with speech or language
problems. ‘‘By the time we tune in,
they're gone.”’

Ball was in Regina for a recent
three-day workshop by the Saskat-
chewan Association of Speech Lan-
guage Pathologists and Audiologists.

The program, developed 14 years
ago in Montreal, is based on the
notion that children with language
problems get caught in a vicious
cycle because their parents respond
to their level of communication.

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Diabetes drug touted

BAR HARBOR, Me. (AP) —
Studies in diabetic mice suggest that
a drug that stimulates the immune
system may stop the destruction of
insulin-producing cells and thus
prevent diabetes, a researcher said.

Stress and viral infections also
have been found to affect the
development of diabetes, said Ed-
ward Leiter, a geneticist at The
Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor.

Leiter said he and his colleagues

id expected: that an immune-
stimulating drug would make dia-
betes worse in the mice they studied.
Instead, it apparently brought the
diabetes under control.

The form of diabetes that requires
insulin injections is thought to occur
when the body's immune system
attack its own insulin-producing
cells, or beta cells, in the pancreas,
Leiter explained.

The drug, a substance called
interleukin-2 that occurs normally in
the body in small amounts, activates
the immune system cells and thus
should have accelerated the des.
truction of beta cells, Leiter said.

It appears, however, that the drug
activated some kind of immune cell
that has the normal function of
preventing the body's defences from
attacking the body itself. In the mice,
it blocked the destruction of beta
cells.

This finding — in mice specially
bred to have diabetes — may not hold
any immediate importance for hu-

mans, but it does shed light on the

in ithe males of that mouse strain.
male mice left alone in a

basic processes ig the dev-
elopment of diabetes, Leiter said.
Mice and humans share many genes
and a variety of diseases.
SEPARATE GENES
Leiter has determined that in the
mice he studied, a strain called
non-obese diabetic or NOD, at least
three separate genes seem related to
the development of diabetes.
He has also found that stress
appears to aggravate the develop-
ment of diabetes, which occurs only

cage with a female for breeding
developed diabetes at about half that
rate, Leiter said.

Leiter said that Michael Oldstone
of the Scripps Clinic in La ‘Jolla,
Calif., recently found that infection
with a virus could block the destruct-
ion of beta cells in NOD mice.

Leiter said viral infections stim-
ulate the production of interleukin-2.
Oldstone's infected mice might have
produced more interleukin-2.

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