Rapid changes in key Alzheimer's protein described in humans

Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 13:35 in Biology & Nature

For the first time, researchers have described hour-by-hour changes in the amount of amyloid beta, a protein that is believed to play a key role in Alzheimer's disease, in the human brain. A collaborative team of scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Milan report their results this week in Science.

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