"Alzheimer's disease?"
Looking at the message sent by Wang Wei, Chen Chen couldn't help but recall the old man with a hearty smile, who was used to drinking tea from a beaker and always running trains in class.
Professor Wang Xi was originally a senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was well-known in the academic world. However, after the age of 65, he had no choice but to withdraw from the front line of scientific research due to physical reasons.
I just didn’t expect that that professor who was funny and humorous on the podium, that top scientist who could lead biology, would actually suffer from this common disease...
Chen Chen sighed secretly, then raised his head and said, "Little
"receive!"
Little
Windows popped up and closed one after another, but within half a minute, a piece of detailed information appeared on the computer screen.
"Department of Neurology, Central Hospital Affiliated to Shangdu Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Alzheimer's Disease."
Seeing this line of words, Chen Chen already understood that what Wang Wei judged was true.
Recalling the help Professor Wang Xi gave him at this time last year, Chen Chen immediately made a decision in his heart.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen gently touched his left hand. There was a thick brass ring on the index finger of his left hand.
As Chen Chen gently brushed the ring, it seemed that he had touched some mechanism. The surface of the ring suddenly popped open, revealing several transparent pills inside.
Chen Chen took out a pill and swallowed it gently, then gently closed his eyes and entered a relaxed state.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
call!
The familiar feeling of having everything in the world under his control quickly returned. Chen Chen suddenly opened his eyes and began to recall all the information about Alzheimer's disease.
The so-called Alzheimer's disease is what is commonly known as Alzheimer's disease in Zhongzhou District, which is a neurodegenerative disease of the brain that may occur after reaching a certain age.
This disease does not seem to be fatal, and it is common because there are too many examples around it. However, many people do not know that it is actually the second largest killer in limiting human life after cancer.
There are many causes of Alzheimer's disease. The most obvious one is the age factor. Starting from the age of fifty, the incidence rate increases significantly with age. When a person reaches the age of eighty, the incidence rate is as high as two over five.
As for age, there are too many factors. Heredity, mental illness, head trauma, and even external factors such as widowhood, living alone, financial difficulties, and bumpy life may become one of the causes of Alzheimer's disease.
Emmmm…
In other words, so far the academic community has not even found the cause of Alzheimer's disease.
The medical community has always believed that "Aβ deposition" and "abnormal phosphorylation of Tau protein" are the main culprits of Alzheimer's disease. However, with the development of some drugs, these arguments have long been questioned by the academic community.
It is now more recognized by the medical community that "Aβ deposition" and "abnormal phosphorylation of Tau protein" are only manifestations of Alzheimer's disease, but not the root cause.
The so-called Aβ deposition refers to the deposition of β-amyloid protein, which is an intracellular pathology that can lead to mitochondrial damage and even apoptosis and other fatal diseases.
This deposition phenomenon first appears in the cerebral cortex, and as the disease becomes more severe, it will spread to the depths of the brain, until it destroys the human brain.
Among the six internationally recognized effective therapeutic drugs today, except for one NMDA receptor antagonist, the others are all acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.
To put it simply, all the advanced international drugs can only slightly slow down the disease and allow the patient to live a few more years, but are of no use other than that.
I heard that a drug for Alzheimer's disease has recently been launched in Zhongzhou District, billed as "the first drug in the world that targets the brain-gut axis." Although the name is fancy, to put it bluntly, it is a drug that controls intestinal bacteria. Drug.
Emmmm…
I won’t talk about this anymore.
At present, Alzheimer's disease is still irreversible, even with medication, because the cause of the disease is the death of a large number of brain nerve cells.
In the later stages, the patient's brain has completely shrunk, and even consciousness no longer exists. In Chen Chen's view, without consciousness, even if the person is still alive, what is the difference between being dead and alive
Therefore, if you want to save Professor Wang Xi, you cannot delay any longer.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen quickly stood up and walked towards the power control room. At the same time, he ordered, "Xiao X, download the first part of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" for me."
Afterwards, Chen Chen walked out of the office door and entered the elevator.
If you want to treat Professor Wang Xi, you have three methods:
First, and the simplest way, use a USB flash drive to ingest the information on the drug ALZ-112 in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".
ALZ-112 is a virus with specific genes that can regeneratively repair neural circuits by infecting the brain.
Unlike the later ALZ-113, ALZ-112 is not contagious and will not destroy the world like the virus in the movie.
The disadvantage is that ALZ-112 only temporarily treats Alzheimer's disease, but cannot cure it.
However, Chen Chen did not have high expectations for the first method, because the USB flash drive cannot extract any life, and viruses are also a type of life, so he can only extract the data of ALZ-112.
The scene of the data only appears for a moment in the movie, so there is no guarantee that the data is complete.
2. If the first method fails, Chen Chen can try to make a movie about Alzheimer's disease and extract the drugs in his movie to solve the problem through this almost cheating method.
This is also Chen Chen’s new attempt at the USB flash drive function.
Of course, in Chen Chen's opinion, the chance of success was extremely close to zero.
Because if this method can really succeed, then Chen Chen can make an energy-related movie and randomly set up a prop like the ZPM in "Stargate". Wouldn't he have endless energy
In this way, the law of conservation of mass and energy is broken.
However, although I understand that the probability of this happening is basically zero, I still have to try.
While trying the second method, Chen Chen will also simultaneously conduct the third method - proactive research.
After all, Chen Chen has the trump card of NZT-48. Previous experiments have shown that NZT-48 has a certain effect on Alzheimer's disease. If it fails, Chen Chen can make a breakthrough in this aspect and supplement it with neural stem cell treatment.
The human body does have the ability to regenerate brain nerve cells, but this ability will decrease with development. When humans reach adulthood, the central nervous system will no longer regenerate and repair after being damaged.
The reasons are, firstly, the lack of necessary cytokine stimulation, and secondly, the position of dead cells after degradation is filled by other cells, resulting in a steric hindrance effect.
This is the irreversible root cause of Alzheimer's disease.
However, neural stem cells can break this rule.