Air pollution and Alzheimer’s disease are casually allied

Do you know, Alzheimer – dementia generated mental problems with memory, thinking and behavior is interconnected with air pollution?  Well, a study conducted by Barbara Maher explored that there is a causal relation between Air pollution and Alzheimer.

The study published in the academic journal titled as – ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,’ stated that that person living in highly polluted areas are more open to the possibilities of suffering from Alzheimer diseases. The extremely dirty areas have abundant amounts of toxic nanoparticles in their atmosphere, and regular contact with those contaminated air can cause Alzheimer.

The co-author of the study, Professor Barbara Maher, from Lancaster University, and her research group took 37 individuals for examining their brain tissue which had lived in air polluted hotspots like Mexico City or Manchester. With the use of microscopic and spectroscopic psychoanalysis, the researcher team found some petite magnetic components from air pollution wedged in the brains, which eventually caused mental issues like Alzheimer.

The tiny magnetic particles located in the human brain is a strongly magnetic, poisonous, mineral, and concerned in the creation of hasty oxygen species including free radicals in the human brain. These particles since a longer period are allied with neurodegenerative issues like Alzheimer. This is for the first time that such detection has been made.

During the publication of the journal, Barbara Maher told,”The first thing we did was to make ultra-thin sections of tissue, and we analyzed that using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, a very highly resolved microscope, in Glasgow. We were able to examine those thin sections to identify if these particles were in the cells, their shape, size, and size distribution, and critically also conduct chemical analysis in the microscope to determine that these particles were magnetite.”