Potential target for treating common form of early-onset dementia identified
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have discovered that a key signaling pathway plays an important role in frontotemporal dementia and may offer a potential target for treatment of the devastating brain disorder, which accounts for one in four cases of early-onset dementia.
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