Newly discovered role for enzyme in neurodegenerative diseases
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 07:00
in Health & Medicine
Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are partly attributable to brain inflammation. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet now demonstrate in a paper published in Nature that a well-known family of enzymes can prevent the inflammation and thus constitute a potential target for drugs.