Scientists identify a new target for Alzheimer's disease

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 05:14 in Health & Medicine

Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Centre have found a new therapeutic target that can potentially lead to a new way to prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The target called neutral sphingomyelinase (N-SMase) is a protein that when activated, can cause a chain of reactions in the cell leading to neuronal death and memory loss...

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