Sentences with phrase «clumps inside brain cells»
Previous research has suggested that in all three diseases, proteins that are folded abnormally form clumps inside brain cells.
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Peer inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer's disease, and you'll see some striking features: shriveled nerve cells and strange protein clumps.
Inside these cells is a protein called alpha - synuclein, which is known to go awry and lead to damaging clumps in the brains of Parkinson's patients, as well as those with Alzheimer's disease.
Tau protein normally helps brain cells function, but in Alzheimer's disease, tau clumps up in «tangles» inside the cells.
It's like gardening gone wrong: scientists can sprinkle Huntington's protein on the outside of laboratory - grown brain cells and make sticky, potentially harmful protein clumps grow inside the cells.