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STUDY: PROTEIN IN ALZHEIMER’S FOUND TO BIND CHOLESTEROL: NEW THERAPEUTICS AFOOT

Posted on June 4, 2012 by

Vanderbilt University researchers have found that the molecular structure of a protein involved in Alazheimer’s disease binds cholesterol and this is leading researchers to target drugs that would block cholesterol from binding to APP, the amyloid precursor believed to trigger the disease. The new findings were published in the June 1 issue of Science. Charles […]

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