Repairing a 'bad' reputation?
Monday, April 20, 2009 - 16:28
in Biology & Nature
New research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies casts the role of a neuronal growth factor receptor -long suspected to facilitate the toxic effects of beta amyloid in Alzheimer's disease - in a new light, suggesting the molecule actually protects the neuron in the periphery from beta amyloid-induced damage.