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A Little-Known Protein Could Point to a New Way To Treat Alzheimer’s

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A Little-Known Protein Could Point to a New Way To Treat Alzheimer’s
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A study suggests that increasing SORLA protein levels could help treat Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders involving tau protein. Increasing SORLA, a protein with a protective role in the brain, helped mice withstand damage from tau tangles, the toxic protein clumps associated with Alzheimer’s disease. The findings suggest that boosting SORLA could offer a way [...]

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