New Way To Prevent Protein Plaques Implicated In Alzheimer’s Found
Nov 20th 2007Drug InformationAlzheimer's / Dementia News XML/RSS Feed
For reasons unknown, amyloid beta, a protein, aggregates into toxic plaques in the brain, destroying neurons. These plaques are one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease. Now two new animal studies show for the first time that the deadly transformation of amyloid beta into plaques can be prevented through an interaction between amyloid beta and another protein called cystatin C. [click link for full article]
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