VOA常速英语:Drug Reverses Alzheimer's in Lab Mice

translate to (把…)转移到…; (把某人)调到…
例句：A friend of mine has been translated to the Ministry.
我的一个朋友被调到了部里工作。

2. In Alzheimer's patients, a substance called beta amyloid builds up, and it's deposited as plaques on brain cells.

build up逐步建立, 增进, 增强,使增大
例句：Many a large and big business has been built up from small ones.
很多大企业都是从小规模发展起来的。

3. "The problem is in Alzheimer's disease, due to age-related inefficiencies in the ability to cut this peptide up and dispose of it, the peptide accumulates in the brain," explains Case Western Reserve University researcher Gary Landreth.

due to由于，因为
例句：Her absence is due to illness.
她因病缺席。
dispose of将(某物)处理掉
例句：Have you any secondhand books to dispose of?
你有旧书要处理吗?

4. An established anti-cancer drug bexarotene indirectly helps turn on the ApoE gene.

turn on打开
例句：You should light the gas as soon as it is turned on.
一扭开煤气管, 你就应该点燃煤气。

5. But then it also induces the brain's immune cells, or microglia, to eat up and dispose of the amyloid plaques, and the net effect is to clear amyloid from the brain.

eat up吃光; 尽情地吃; 耗尽; 吞没
例句：The flames ate up the building.
大火烧毁了房子。

6. However, "if we put these guys on [the] drug for just 72 hours, they begin to build nests again. So...what the mice suggest is that in early stages of Alzheimer's Disease, the disease appears to be reversible."

put on穿上, 戴上; 把…放在…上
例句：The trees have put on their new coats of green.
树木披上了新绿。

7. Landreth and a colleague have applied for a patent to use bexarotene for Alzheimer's, and he doesn't hide his enthusiasm.

apply for申请
例句：I made up my mind to apply for a scholarship.
我决定申请奖学金。

8. We have a drug that is very safe, and importantly, it gets across the blood-brain barrier.

get across (使)越过;(使)渡过
例句：The bridge was destroyed, so we couldn't get across.
桥被毁坏, 我们无法通过。