Sentences with phrase «behaved brain protein»
An ill - behaved brain protein that escaped notice for over 90 years has unexpectedly emerged as a major possible cause of Alzheimer's disease.
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The silver lining, says Richard Salmon, a retired neurologist who wrote an editorial accompanying the research, is that recent research shows that the vCJD prion behaves much like the pathological proteins behind a number of other diseases involving brain degeneration, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
To understand how a protein behaves in the context of a whole brain, you're going to need to put it into a whole brain.
In some brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, distorted proteins behave like infectious agents, spreading among brain cells and corrupting other proteins.