Study points to disruption of copper regulation as key to prion diseases
Friday, April 17, 2009 - 07:56
in Biology & Nature
An investigation of a rare, inherited form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease suggests that disrupted regulation of copper ions in the brain may be a key factor in this and other prion diseases...
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