Key Heart, Alzheimer's Disease Protein Imaged For First Time In Native State
Using the technique known as X-ray crystallography, scientists have created the highest-resolution of a lipoprotein particle to date.
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Key Heart and Alzheimer's Disease Protein Imaged for First Time in Native State
Researchers for the first time have created a three-dimensional image of apolipoprotein E, a protein long associated with cardiovascular disease and more recently with Alzheimer's disease, as it appears when it is bound to fat-like substances known as lipids.
New UCSF study finds that obesity is a risk factor for kidney failure
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have determined that there is a strong relationship between being obese and developing end-stage renal disease, or kidney failure.
Obesity a Risk Factor for Kidney Failure
Researchers have determined that there is a strong relationship between being obese and developing end-stage renal disease, or kidney failure.
Key Brain Antioxidant Linked to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
New results "support the idea that oxidative stress contributes to aging" in the brain.
Gladstone Study Links Alzheimer's with Toxic Protein Fragments
New research from the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease details exactly how a mutant form of the protein apolipoprotein E, also known as apoE, is a causative factor for Alzheimer's disease.
Key Brain Antioxidant Linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
A study conducted at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has identified a protein found in both mice and humans that appears to play a key role in protecting neurons from oxidative stress, a toxic process linked to neurodegenerative illnesses including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
Gladstone Researchers Identify New Drug Target for Alzheimer's Disease
Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease have identified a potential new way to stop brain cell death related to Alzheimer's disease.
Gladstone Researchers Identify New Drug Target for Alzheimer's Disease
Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease have identified a potential new way to stop brain cell death related to Alzheimer's disease.
Scientists Zero in on Memory-Related Proteins at Core of Alzheimer's Disease
New research sheds light on how the formation of long-term memories may be blocked in Alzheimer's disease.
Scientists Zero In on Memory-Related Proteins at the Core of Alzheimer's Disease
New research sheds light on how the formation of long-term memories may be blocked in Alzheimer's disease.
San Francisco VA Looking for Participants for Alzheimer's Study
Researchers at UCSF and the San Francisco VA Medical Center are looking for healthy individuals age 60 and older, with and without memory complaints, for a study on memory and Alzheimer's disease.
Gene Strongly Linked to Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity
A new finding may open the way to developing drugs to prevent or reverse potentially deadly insulin resistance syndrome.
Gene strongly linked to Type 2 diabetes and obesity
Scientists in France and the U.S. report that a variant of a common protein plays a primary role in Type 2 diabetes and obesity, key features of the "insulin resistance syndrome" that affects more than 50 million people in the U.S. and a similar number in Europe.
MRI Technique Distinguishes Between Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Dementia
Research shows that a non-invasive MRI technique is safer, more widely available and cheaper to use to distinguish types of dementia in patients.