"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, used to drinking tea with a beaker, and always running trains in class.

Professor Wang Xi was a senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and had a great reputation in the academic community, but after the age of 65, he had no choice but to withdraw from the front line of scientific research due to physical reasons.

It's just that I didn't expect that the professor who was humorous on the podium, the top scientist who was enough to lead biology, would get such an ordinary human disease......

Chen Chen sighed secretly, then raised his head and said, "Xiao X, let me check Professor Wang Xi of Zhongzhou District Business Capital Jiaotong University, I want to know everything about him now." ”

"Roger!"

Xiao X's voice immediately came from the speaker, and then Chen Chen's computer automatically turned on, and the computer screen flashed rapidly like a flower.

Window after window pops up and closes, but within half a minute, a detailed document appears on the computer screen.

"Department of Neurology, Affiliated Central Hospital, 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 that 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 stroked his left hand, and there was a thick brass ring on his left index finger.

As Chen Chen gently brushed the ring, it seemed that he had touched some mechanism, and the ring suddenly bounced 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 familiarity of everything in the world quickly returned, and Chen Chen opened his eyes sharply and began to recall all the information about Alzheimer's disease.

The so-called Alzheimer's disease is the so-called Alzheimer's disease in the Middle Continent, that is, the neurodegenerative diseases of the brain that may occur after reaching a certain age.

This disease does not seem to be fatal, and it is common because of the many examples around it, but many people do not know that it is actually the second largest killer of human life after cancer.

There are many causes of Alzheimer's disease, the most obvious is the age factor, starting from the age of 50, with the increase of age, the incidence is significantly higher, and by the time people reach 80, the incidence is as high as 2 out of 5.

As for age, there are too many factors, such as genetics, mental illness, head trauma, and even external factors such as widowhood, living alone, financial difficulties, and turbulent life may become one of the triggers of Alzheimer's disease.

emmmm……

In other words, so far the academic community has not even found the cause of Alzheimer's disease.

In the past, the medical community has believed that "Aβ deposition" and "abnormal phosphorylation of tau protein" are the main culprits of Alzheimer's disease, but with the development of some drugs, these arguments have long been questioned by the academic community.

It is now more widely accepted in 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, which refers to the deposition of amyloid β, is a kind of intracellular lesion, which can lead to mitochondrial damage and even cause apoptosis and other fatal diseases.

This deposition first appears in the cerebral cortex and spreads deeper into the brain as the disease progresses, until it destroys the human brain.

Among the six internationally recognized and effective therapeutic drugs, except for one NMDA receptor antagonist, the others are acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.

To put it simply, all the drugs in the advanced world can only slightly slow down the symptoms and allow the patient to live a few more years, and nothing else.

I heard that a drug for Alzheimer's disease has also been launched in Zhongzhou recently, which is advertised as "the world's first drug targeting the brain-gut axis", although the name is very high, it can be said to be a drug that controls intestinal bacteria.

emmmm……

Let's not talk about that.

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 cranial nerve cells.

In the later stage, the patient's brain has completely atrophied, and even consciousness does not exist, in Chen Chen's view, without consciousness, even if the person is still alive, what is the difference between being dead and dead?

Therefore, if you want to save Professor Wang Xi, you can't delay it any longer.

Thinking of this, Chen Chen quickly got up and walked towards the power main control room, and at the same time ordered as he walked, "Little X, download the first part of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" for me. ”

Then, Chen Chen walked out of the office door and entered the elevator.

If you want to treat Professor Wang Xi, there are three ways to treat him:

First, and the easiest way, use a USB flash drive to extract the data of the drug ALZ-112 in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

ALZ-112 is a virus with specific genes that regenerative repair neural circuits by infecting the brain.

Unlike the later ALZ-113, ALZ-112 is not contagious and does not have the virus that was destroyed in the movie.

The disadvantage is that ALZ-112 only temporarily treats Alzheimer's disease, but cannot cure it.

However, Chen Chen's expectations for the first method were not high, because the USB flash drive could not extract any life, and the virus was also a type of life, so he could only extract the data of ALZ-112.

The scene of the material only appears for a moment in the movie, and there is no guarantee that the material 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 own movie, and solve the problem through this almost cheating method.

This is also Chen Chen's new attempt at the USB flash drive function.

Of course, the probability of success is extremely close to zero in Chen Chen's opinion.

Because if this method can really succeed, then Chen Chen can make an energy movie, and set up a prop like ZPM in "Stargate" at will, wouldn't there be endless energy?

In this way, the law of conservation of mass and energy is broken.

However, while it is understood that the probability of this happening is basically zero, it is still necessary to try.

While trying the second way, Chen Chen will also carry out the third way - active research.

After all, Chen Chen has the hole card of NZT-48, and previous experiments have learned that NZT-48 has a certain effect on Alzheimer's disease, and Chen Chen can make a breakthrough in this aspect, supplemented by neural stem cell therapy.

The human body does have the ability to regenerate brain nerve cells, but this ability decreases with development, and when humans become adults, the central nervous system is damaged and will no longer regenerate and repair.

The reasons for this are the lack of necessary cytokine stimulation and the fact that the dead cells are degraded and filled with other cells.

This is where Alzheimer's disease is irreversible.

However, neural stem cells can break this rule.