Team:UCL/Background

From 2013.igem.org

(Difference between revisions)
Line 81: Line 81:
</div>
</div>
-
<div class="col_links">
 
-
<p class="minor_title">Links</p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/">Alzheimer’s Society</a></p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.alz.co.uk/">Alzheimer’s Disease International</a></p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.alz.org/">Alzheimer’s Association</a></p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/infographic">Statistics</a></p>
 
-
</div>
 
</div>
</div>
Line 107: Line 100:
</div>
</div>
-
<div class="col_links">
 
-
<p class="minor_title">Links</p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.alzgene.org/ ">Alzheimer’s Genetics</a></p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.nature.com/nrn/posters/ad/nrn_ad_posters.pdf">Alzheimer’s infographic</a></p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v10/n9/full/nrd3505.html">The Amyloid Hypothesis</a></p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=147">Current Drug Treatments</a></p>
 
-
</div>
 
</div>
</div>
Line 135: Line 121:
</div>
</div>
-
<div class="col_links">
 
-
<p class="minor_title">Links</p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.nature.com/scibx/journal/v3/n14/full/scibx.2010.423.html">Microglia in AD</a></p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182045">Neuroinflammation in AD</a></p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.bionity.com/en/encyclopedia/Microglia.html">Nature of Microglia</a></p>
 
-
<p class="citation_text"><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6005/783.full">The Changing Face of Microglia</a></p>
 
-
</div>
 
</div>
</div>

Revision as of 16:41, 18 August 2013

WHAT IS ALZHEIMER'S?

Dementia

Dementia is an age related neurodegenerative condition, characterised by failure of recent memory and intellectual functions (attention, language, visual-spatial orientation, abstract thinking, judgement), and tends to progress steadily. These changes are due to the mounting dysfunction and death of brain cells, called neurons, that are responsible for the storage and computation of information. Late stages of the disease often see patients bedridden, mute and incontinent.

Click the abstracts below to read more.