First Atomic-level Look At A Protein That Causes Brain Disease

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Thu, 04/24/2008 - 06:00

For the first time, researchers have peered deeply at the atomic level into the protein that causes hereditary cerebral amyloid angiopathy -- a disease thought to cause stroke and dementia.

The study pinpointed a tiny portion of the protein molecule that is key to the formation of plaques in blood vessels in the brain.


 

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