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THE PULSE: Wine Can Benefit Alzheimer's Patients

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Nov 19, 2008 6:03 pm US/Pacific

THE PULSE: Wine Can Benefit Alzheimer's Patients

Reporting
Lisa Sigell
LOS ANGELES (CBS) ― Compounds in red wine could help to fight Alzheimer's disease.

Dr. Jeffrey Cummings, Director of the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research at UCLA, explains that his colleagues found that a commercially-available grape seed extract was able to reverse the Alzheimer's disease changes in mice that they used to model this disease.

Dr. Cummings said, "the study is very encouraging because we haven't known the precise mechanism by which the grape seed extract interferes with the toxic protein. Now, with greater understanding of that, we are able to change these grape seed extracts into drugs that can help people."

He adds, "we anticipate that when similar drugs are administered to patients, that they would have the same affect of reducing the protein, sparing the nerve cells, thus either slowing the disease or improving the symptoms."

Dr. Cummings says the next step is human clinical trials.

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