Function found for Alzheimer's protein

Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 06:07 in Biology & Nature

In people with Alzheimer's, the brain becomes riddled with clumps of protein, forming what are known as amyloid plaques. Now, a report appearing in the September 17th print issue of Cell appears to have found a function for the amyloid precursor protein (APP for short) that yields the prime ingredient in those plaques...

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