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- noun medicine Any
disease (especially aneurodegenerative disease) caused by a malformedprotein
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"This report suggests that the play of contact sports, including boxing, football, and hockey, might be associated with a widespread TDP-43 proteinopathy that, in some individuals, is manifest as MND," McKee wrote in her report, which appears in the September issue of the
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“Alzheimer’s disease is a proteinopathy [wherein] the pathology is in part due to the proteins that have misfolded or accumulated and evoked a toxic response,” says study co-author Brendan Miller, a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California.
Map of brain ‘microproteins’ could offer new clues to Alzheimer’s disease Miryam Naddaf 2026
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