Apo E: caught inside the nerve cell. (finding lipid-carrying molecule apolipoprotein E found in nerve cells implicates them in Alzheimer's Disease) (Brief Article)

From: Science News | Date: August 13, 1994 | Copyright information

Over the past year, geneticists and epidemiologists have continued to build their case for the involvement of a lipidcarrying molecule called apolipoprotein E (apo E) in Alzheimer's disease (SN: 1/1/94, p.8; 5/7/94, p.295). Critics have argued, however, that apo E does not get into nerve cells. Now, Allen D. Roses at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., has captured apo E on film at the scene of the crime, so to speak.

Roses' team examined pieces of five tempo...

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