Alzheimer Disease
UMass Lowell Researchers Findings Suggest New Ways to Diagnose and Treat Alzheimers: Uncovers New Explanation for the Spread of Key Protein Within the Brain
Published in Genomics and Genetics Weekly, March 26th, 2010
The research, led by UMass Lowell biological sciences professor Garth Hall, gives new hope that the disease may someday be cured. It provides a new explanation of how the protein tau, a normal human protein that becomes toxic in Alzheimer's patients, can appear in their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The findings of the team from the UMass Lowell Center for Cellular Neuroscience and Neurodegeneration Research appear in the February issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
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