Scientists from Northern Ireland, Sweden and the US have carried out a research that shows that some diabetes drugs or insulin if taken as in a simple nasal spray could have a remarkable effect on Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer is a type of dementia where people tend to loose memory at early stages. Mood swings, irritability and long-term memory loss comes next.
Scientists have been researching on use of Insulin as a way of treating Alzheimer disease and dementia.
Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar but it also plays an important part in bringing back the memory processes to normal. However, if given directly the blood sugar can drop low, which may have adverse effect.
Scientists now claim that if taken as nasal spray, insulin directly reaches into brain within minutes and improves memory.
Research shows that intranasal insulin could be a new strategy to treat the disease.
Dr Christian Holscher, a research scientist at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, said that the team has seen promising effects when they used the diabetes drugs to treat mice - bred to develop signs of Alzheimer's -who showed improved cognitive function and signs of new nerve cell growth.
(with inputs from ANI)
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