Stopping nerve cell death in the brain

Tel Aviv University Professor Illana Gozes has made yet another discovery (see previous) about the gene fragment NAP and its potential to treat Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases. NAP stops abnormal Tau proteins from tangling the microtubules that maintain the brain’s nerve cells.

https://www.aftau.org/weblog-medicine–health?=&storyid4704=2316&ncs4704=3

http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp2016255a.html

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