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.

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