Modulating a protein in the brain could help control Alzheimer's disease
Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 23:20
in Health & Medicine
A protein known to exist in the brain for more than 30 years, called 5-lipoxygenase, has been found to play a regulatory role in the formation of the amyloid beta in the brain, the major component of plaques implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease.