Alzheimer’s brains found to have lower levels of key protein

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Researchers have found that a protein variation linked by some genetic studies to Alzheimer’s disease is consistently present in the actual brains of people with Alzheimer’s. In further biochemical and cell culture investigations, they have shown that this protein, known as ubiquilin-1, performs a critical Alzheimer’s-related function: it “chaperones” the ... continue reading