Newly discovered role for enzyme in neurodegenerative diseases

Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 14:10 in Health & Medicine

Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are partly attributable to brain inflammation. Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet in Sweden 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...

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