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.

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