Tau interferes with nuclear transport in Alzheimer’s disease

Monday, September 10, 2018 - 08:30 in Health & Medicine

A team of scientists led by researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and from Massachusetts General Hospital have found that the nuclear pore complex, which controls the transport of molecules into the cell nucleus, is defective in animal and human Alzheimer’s disease cells and that the defect is associated with aggregation of proteins in neurons. Researchers […]

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