Sentences with phrase «up of an abnormal protein»

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.

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Payne keyed in the symptoms, and the computer program suggested a handful of potential conditions, including a rare disease called amyloidosis, in which abnormal proteins build up in the body, interfering with normal organ function and causing nerve damage.

Several of the proteins characteristic of cancer cells seem to show up in these nerve cells, and this is very abnormal.

This turned out to be a normal protein in the cells of organisms throughout the animal kingdom — but in brains infected with scrapie and related diseases it turns up in both a normal, soluble form and an abnormal, insoluble form which accumulates in deposits that eventually kill the cells.

Gambetti, who was not involved in the new study, is co-author on a second NEJM paper appearing online today that shows that an assay similar to the CSF — based RT - QuIC test can pick up very small amounts of abnormal prion protein in the urine of people who have contracted a rare variant of CJD that is transmitted by consuming contaminated meat.

It also clumped up in the same location as abnormal clumps of nuclear pore proteins NUP88 and NUP62.

• Keeping abnormal proteins from building up and potentially shutting down major organs (heart, liver and nervous system, to name a few) • Protecting the brain's functions of learning and memory against neurotransmitter toxicity • Activating or increasing the activity of proteins that promote the initial growth, maintenance and survival of brain neurons • Enhancing the movement of proteins, lipids and other cell parts through the cytoplasm of cell bodies.

Deep inside the brains of people with dementia and Lou Gehrig's disease, globs of abnormal protein gum up the inner workings of brain cells — dooming them to an early death.

Alzheimer's Disease involves the accumulation of abnormal protein — either amyloid beta or Tau protein which gums up the brain system.