Strategy discovered to prevent Alzheimer's-associated traffic jams in the brain
Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 16:56
in Health & Medicine
Amyloid beta (Αβ) proteins, widely thought to cause Alzheimer's disease (AD), block the transport of vital cargoes inside brain cells. Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have discovered that reducing the level of another protein, tau, can prevent Aβ from causing such traffic jams.