A new study indicates that the drug suvorexant could reduce proteins associated with Alzheimer's by improving sleep quality.

As reported in the Neuron article, Goldstein’s team showed that excess APP containing amyloid-beta region and the C-terminus caused neural cell death, but amyloid-beta containing APP alone did not.

Amyloid beta proteins occur naturally in our brains ... Octavian Sasmita and colleagues demonstrated the involvement of neuron support cells, oligodendrocytes, in abnormal brain plaque formation ...

disrupting cell function and leading to neuron death in affected areas, which ultimately results in cognitive decline. The precise role of amyloid beta plaques in Alzheimer’s development is ...

Function Features of cell that allow it to perform its function Beta cell (in pancreas ... can slide past each other to shorten the cell Neuron (nerve cell) Animal Transmits electrical impulses ...