Because people with Down syndrome are very likely to develop Alzheimer's, they are ideal candidates for experimental drugs meant to halt the disease.
and a professor at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus.
"We are running clinical trials for immune modulating agents in Down syndrome," he says."There is an active trial right now to tone down that response with a class of drugs known asJAK inhibitors are used to reduce inflammation in people with rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. Last year, he did a small study to establish that Leukine could safely be given to people with Alzheimer's.
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