Study detailing axonal death pathway may provide drug targets for neurodegenerative diseases

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 10:50 in Biology & Nature

Experiments show that a protein already implicated in degeneration, called Sarm1, functions to trigger the MAP kinase pathway. Inactivation of this pathway at any of three levels could block the death of damaged axons. More »

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