Sentences with phrase «abnormal protein aggregates»

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These abnormal proteins are prone to aggregating with one another inside cells.

The Max Planck scientists could also show that a toxic protein related to the abnormal, aggregate - forming protein «huntingtin» of patients with the neurodegenerative Huntington's disease is efficiently destroyed by the newly identified pathway.

Intriguingly, brain cells (neurons) with decreased complex I levels are significantly less likely to contain Lewy bodies, the abnormal protein - aggregates that characterize Parkinson's disease,» says researcher Charalampos Tzoulis at Department of Clinical Science, UiB.

Several human neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease but also aging, are linked to an accumulation of abnormal and aggregated proteins in cells.