Sentences with phrase «synuclein until»

«We never see any α - synuclein until 40 years of age,» says Jeffrey Kordower of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

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Lewy bodies were described a century ago, but it was not until 1997 that scientists discovered they were made of clumps of a misfolded protein called α - synuclein.

Until now, scientists haven't thought this build - up was important to the disease process because it looked different from the types of protein accumulations — such as tau, amyloid and alpha synuclein — that are clearly toxic and always found in patients with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and some forms of dementia.

While malfunctioning alpha - synuclein has long been recognised as a hallmark of Parkinson's Disease, its role in healthy brains was not properly understood until now.