Doctors are also beginning to use new technology to detect amyloid, a plaque-causing protein that can lead to Alzheimer's disease.

博士们正在用新的技术来检测淀粉样蛋白，它是一个可以引起斑块的蛋白导致阿尔茨海默病。

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Mice with a rodent equivalent of the disease showed a 50 per cent reduction in levels of amyloid protein in their brains after the scientists added caffeine to their drinking water.

把疾病基因移植到鼠类身上，科学家发现当把咖啡因注入到老鼠饮用的水中，这些老鼠脑内的淀粉状蛋白指数会减少50%。

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Amyloid plaques form when a molecule called amyloid precursor protein (APP) is chopped up by two enzymes known as beta-secretase and gamma-secretase.

当一种叫淀粉样前体蛋白（APP）的分子被两种酶——分别叫作贝塔-分泌酶和伽玛-分泌酶——切断时就形成了淀粉样斑块。

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The main anatomical symptoms of Alzheimer's are the growth in the brain of plaques of a protein called beta amyloid, and tangles inside cells of a second protein called tau.

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Beta amyloid is a protein fragment that collects in clumps inside the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

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Harvard University researchers conducted experiments on mice using oligomers, a soluble form of amyloid-beta protein, which is the key compound in brain plaque and a hallmark of Alzheimer's.

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