Sentences with phrase «of amyloid protein compared»

In fact, in another study published last year, National Institute on Aging (NIA) researchers discovered that people with what's called a CR1 gene variant — the presence of which heightens Alzheimer's disease risk — had much lower levels of amyloid protein compared with those without the mutant gene.

Not exact matches

In a culture dish microglia that were modified to make a lot of TREM2 gobbled more amyloid and removed more dying neurons, compared with microglia having less of the protein.

These results indicated that, under our experimental conditions, other amyloidogenic proteins do not induce significant accumulation of IAPP compared with amyloid aggregates composed of IAPP.