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Viral Infection May Enhance Misfolded Protein Spread, Accelerate Neurodegeneration – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Certain viral molecules facilitate intercellular spreading of protein aggregates that are hallmarks of brain diseases like Alzheimer’s…
Aggregates of misfolded proteins, which are associated with neurodegenerative diseases and occur in prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, have the ability to pass from one cell to anotherincluding unaffected cells. As a result, the disease spreads…
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