Thursday, September 23, 2010

New Target for Alzheimer's Disease Identified

ScienceDaily (Sep. 21, 2010) — Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found a new therapeutic target that can potentially lead to a new way to prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The target called neutral sphingomyelinase (N-SMase) is a protein that when activated, can cause a chain of reactions in the cell leading to neuronal death and memory loss.

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