Article: Potential Cure of Alzheimers

"The research team revealed that as the brain ages, C1q accumulates around the brain’s synapses – contact points that connect the brain’s nerve cells to one another.  Rather than being naturally cleared by the brain, the C1q sticks, making these synapses vulnerable to destruction from the brain’s immune cells.

“We think people have the ordering backwards,” Barres said.  “We believe the complement turns on first and starts to kill synapses.  If that’s true, the implication is we just need to block this complement cascade to treat Alzheimer’s.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/08/14/potential-cure-for-alzheimers-scientists-identify-new-culprit-behind/