HOUSTON: Researchers have found that proteins that control the progression of Alzheimer’s are linked in a biological pathway, opening up the possibility that drugs targeting this pathway may be one way of treating the disease.
The research identified a new association between amyloid precursor protein (APP) and tau. The scientists found that as amyloid precursor protein (APP) is broken down into the harmful amyloid-beta fragments, this in turn affects changes in the way the protein tau behaves…