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- verb Present participle of
misfold .
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The acquisition, announced last month without the disclosure of financial details, allows the drug giant to benefit from FoldRx's wide portfolio of clinical and pre-clinical programs for compounds studied as treatment for protein misfolding, which is increasingly recognized as an underlying cause in many chronic degenerative diseases.
Pfizer Considering Divestiture of Capsugel, Closes on FoldRx Acquisition - FOXBusiness.com - 2010
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FoldRx, based in Cambridge, Mass., is developing potential treatments for diseases caused by protein misfolding, which is increasingly recognized as an underlying cause in many chronic degenerative diseases.
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FoldRx, based in Cambridge, Mass., is developing potential treatments for diseases caused by protein misfolding, which is increasingly recognized as an underlying cause in many chronic degenerative diseases.
Fore, right! 2010
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In ATTR-CM, also known as Familial Amyloid Cardiomyopathy (FAC), a 'misfolding' of the protein transthyretin (TTR) causes an accumulation of protein-derived material known as amyloid fibrils in the myocardium.
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With even slight misfolding, a protein may crystallize too easily.
Connecting the Pieces of the Alzheimer's Puzzle Matt Ridley 2011
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Cortisol, too, is beginning to look like an accomplice in the misfolding of A-beta, according to work at the University of California at Irvine.
Connecting the Pieces of the Alzheimer's Puzzle Matt Ridley 2011
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Stress and inflammation produce derivatives of cortisol and cholesterol, which trigger misfolding in A-beta proteins.
Connecting the Pieces of the Alzheimer's Puzzle Matt Ridley 2011
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The researchers identified a mutation, or a misfolding, in a protein called ubiquilin 2 that renders it ineffective.
Deciphering Lou Gehrig's Disease Shirley S. Wang 2011
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Stress and inflammation produce derivatives of cortisol and cholesterol, which trigger misfolding in A-beta proteins.
Connecting the Pieces of the Alzheimer's Puzzle Matt Ridley 2011
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Which brings us to piece 5, this week's announcement of the discovery by Jeffery Kelly and his colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute that a chemical formed when cholesterol reacts with ozone attaches to A-beta and makes the misfolding of it more likely.
Connecting the Pieces of the Alzheimer's Puzzle Matt Ridley 2011
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