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New protease inhibitors against Alzheimer's disease
Email: Tudor Toma - ttoma@mail.dntis.ro News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010424-02
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Patients with Alzheimer's disease accumulate amyloid-β protein (Aβ) in their brain and it has been suggested that blocking the production of Aβ may interrupt the causality chain of the disease. In the May issue of Nature Cell Biology Agnès Petit and colleagues from the Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire in Nice, and Trophos Inc., Marseille, describe new synthetic drugs that specifically target the production of Aβ without any obvious side effects.
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