A Tale of Two Proteins Involved in the Neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's Disease (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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A Tale of Two Proteins Involved in the Neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's Disease (2 of 3)

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Graphical abstract depicting a model of action of S100B in delaying amyloid-β aggregation. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 29 June 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.S. Cristóvãoat Universidade de Lisboa in Lisboa, Portugal, and colleagues was titled, "The neuronal S100B protein is a calcium-tuned suppressor of amyloid-β aggregation."

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[Credit: Cristóvão et al., Sci. Adv. 2018; 4 : eaaq1702]

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