Treatment For Diabetic Neurodegenerative Diseases

Now, to some this may seem nothing to do with diabetes - but read the article, and you will maybe change your mind, This could be very significant in pursuit of a diabetes cure. Sometimes proteins collide and bind with other proteins. They aggregate, growing to form what are called 'amyloid fibres'. This can result in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and some forms of spongiform encephalopathy. It also produces the malfunctions of the pancreas that are responsible for type 2 diabetes. Scientists at the Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona have devised a method that allows those parts of the proteins that set off aggregation to be easily identified. With this new technique, which may be of interest to sufferers of Tyoe 2 diabetes, scientists are able to correctly identify the exact zones of each protein that casue these proteins to bind, aggregate and form amyloid fibres. This may lead to better preventative treatment for those in high risk groups for Type 2 diabetes,

Post date: 2006-01-09 17:44
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