Sentences with phrase «fibrous proteins called»
3/21/2007 Inhibiting Blood to Save the Brain UCSD researchers suppress relapsing paralysis in mouse model of Multiple Sclerosis A fibrous protein called fibrinogen, found in circulating blood and Fibrinogen (red) and activated microglia (green) in a brain lesion of an animal mode... More...
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Several factors have been implicated in Alzheimer's, including the build - up of an abnormal protein called beta amyloid, fibrous tangles in the brain involving abnormal forms of a protein called tau, and — most recently — an association between the disease and a gene called ApoE.
Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, is characterized by the accumulation of plaques (composed of amyloid - beta protein) and fibrous tangles (composed of abnormal tau) in brain cells called neurons.