Protein Linked To Alzheimer's Disease Doesn't Act Alone
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 10:14
in Biology & Nature
Neuroscientists are steadily uncovering the role that amyloid precursor protein (APP) -- the protein implicated in development of Alzheimer's disease -- plays in normal brain function. They have discovered that APP interacts with another protein known as Reelin to promote development of abundant connections between brain neurons.