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Enzyme May Be A Key To Alzheimer's-related Cell Death

Featured on: Eureka Alert
Publication date: Oct 7, 2009

Research by Sandra Rossie at Purdue University in Indiana has demonstrated that the enzyme protein phosphate 5 (PP5) seems to help prevent the death of neurons in the brain caused by accumulation of toxic amyloid proteins, a process associated with Alzheimer's Disease, and now seeks to understand how it works.

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