NEEDLE-SHAPED AMYLOID IN RAT MAMMARY GLAND (GREEN BIREFRINGENCE) (IMAGE)

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

NEEDLE-SHAPED AMYLOID IN RAT MAMMARY GLAND (GREEN BIREFRINGENCE)

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A collaboration led by scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan, has discovered a novel amyloid protein that induces amyloidosis in rats. This new amyloid protein is known to be the lipopolysaccharide binding protein (LBP) and accumulated very frequently in the mammary gland of aged rats. The results of this research are useful for predicting the future occurrence of human amyloidosis and as a disease model animal.

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Tomoaki Murakami, TUAT

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