Compounds that help protect nerve cells discovered by Duke team

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 16:42 in Health & Medicine

Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have found some compounds that improve a cell's ability to properly "fold" proteins and could lead to promising drugs for degenerative nerve diseases, including Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

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