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Modulating a protein in the brain could help control Alzheimer’s disease
November 18, 2010 by NewsBot
A protein known to exist in the brain for more than 30 years, called 5-lipoxygenase, has been found to play a regulatory role in the formation of the amyloid beta in the brain, the major component of plaques implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease.
