Scientists begin to untangle root cause of Alzheimer's disease

Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 12:35 in Health & Medicine

In a research report published online in the FASEB Journal, an international team of scientists describe how the N60 fragment of the RanBP9 protein increases the production of the amyloid beta protein, which is present in excessive amounts in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.

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