Protein linked to Alzheimer's disease doesn't act alone

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 00:49 in Biology & Nature

A team of U.S. investigators led by neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Centre (GUMC) are steadily uncovering the role that amyloid precursor protein (APP) - the protein implicated in development of Alzheimer's disease - plays in normal brain function. In the 10 June issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, they discovered that APP interacts with another protein known as Reelin to promote development of abundant connections between brain neurones...

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