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(1) Alzheimer’s disease has no cure. There are, however, five drugs—known and approved—that can slow down the development of its
(1) Alzheimer’s disease has no cure. There are, however, five drugs—known and approved—that can slow down the development of its
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(1) Alzheimer’s disease has no cure. There are, however, five drugs—known and approved—that can slow down the development of its symptoms. The earlier such drugs are administered, the better. Unfortunately, the disease is usually first noticed when people complain to their doctors of memory problems. That is normally too late for the drugs to do much good. A simple and reliable test for Alzheimer’s that can be administered to everybody over the age of about 65, before memory-loss sets in, would therefore be useful.
(2) Theo Luider, of the Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, and his colleagues think they have found one—but it works only in women. They made their discovery, just reported in the Journal of Proteome Research, by tapping into a long-term, continuing study that started in 1995 with 1077
non-demented
and otherwise healthy people aged between 60 and 90. At the beginning of the project, and subsequently during the periods 1997 - 1999 and 2002 - 2004, participants were brought in for a battery of neurological and cognitive investigations, physical examinations, brain imaging and blood tests.
(3) During the first ten years of the study, 43 of the volunteers developed Alzheimer’s disease. When Dr. Luider compared blood samples from these people with samples from 43 of their fellow volunteers, matched for sex and age, who had remained Alzheimer’s-free, he found something startling. Levels of a substance called pregnancy zone protein had been unusually high, even before their symptoms appeared, in some of those who went on to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
(4) Those "some", it turned out, were all women. On average, levels of pregnancy zone protein in those women who went on to develop Alzheimer’s were almost 60% higher than those of women who did not. In men, levels of the protein were the same for both.
(5) The reason for this curious result seems to be that the brain plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease are themselves turning out pregnancy zone protein. Certainly, when Dr. Luider applied a chemical stain specific to that protein to the plaques of dead Alzheimer’s patients he found the protein present in them.
(6) Confusingly, though, it was there in the plaques of both sexes. Presumably, female cells (and therefore the plaques of female brains) make more of it than male cells do. But that remains to be proved. Whatever the reason, however, this result means that women, at least, may soon be able to tell whether and when they are at risk of Alzheimer’s—and thus do something about it before they start losing their minds. (本文选自 The Economist)
What does Dr. Luider’s study tell us about the pregnancy zone protein?
选项
A、It never increases before the appearance of Alzheimer’s symptoms.
B、Its level remains stable for men’s whole lifetime.
C、Women suffering Alzheimer’s usually have lower levels of it.
D、The brain plaques connected with Alzheimer’s produce it.
答案
D
解析
细节题原文第五段第一句提到,出现这一惊人结果的原因似乎是与阿尔茨海默病有关联的脑部斑块自身会产生妊娠区带蛋白,故D“与阿尔茨海默病有关的大脑斑块产生妊娠区带蛋白”为正确答案。根据第三段最后一句可知,在一些患者的阿尔茨海默病症状出现之前,妊娠区带蛋白含量也异常高,故排除A,同时可以排除C,因为患有阿尔茨海默病的女性患者的妊娠区带蛋白水平较高,而不是较低;根据第四段可知,出现上述症状的多为女性,而男性则不同,他们患有阿尔茨海默病之前和之后,妊娠区带蛋白的水平都是一致的,B曲解了本句的意思,故排除。
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