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New Drug Holds Promise for Combating Alzheimer's  -  Mar 16, 2008
Scientific AmericanThe researchers also tested CPHPC on 19 patients suffering from systemic amyloidosis, a disease in which protein clumps form throughout the body.

Bolsa de Pós-doutoramento  -  Dec 6, 2007
Naturlink,...mycardium in elderly people, while point mutations tend to increase the amyloidogenic nature of TTR, leading to different forms of systemic amyloidosis.

scripps research scientists develop modeling method that increases ...  -  Nov 15, 2007
AScribe (press release)...million african-americans carry the gene that predisposes them to fac. another amyloid disease affecting the heart, senile systemic amyloidosis (ssa),

William A. Fassbender  -  Oct 1, 2007
Black Hills Pioneer,27, 2007 at Weston County Health Services following a lengthy battle with systemic amyloidosis. Bill graduated from Spearfish High School.

Adlyfe Study on the Detection of Misfolded Proteins Published in ...  -  Aug 29, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),...such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, Huntington's disease, systemic amyloidosis, diabetes and other diseases.

A Maestro Conducting With Heart ... a New One  -  Jul 22, 2007
New York Times,Specific types of amyloidosis are defined by the source of the protein, and Mr. Bass developed the most common type, primary systemic amyloidosis,

From UTIs to Brain: Scientists Discover Biochemical Model of ...  -  Jul 24, 2007
Medgadget.com,...including Alzheimer's disease (AD), systemic amyloidosis, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE; mad cow disease), and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease,

Detecting Inherited Heart Disease  -  Jan 18, 2007
Baltimore Jewish Times,Anyone with a first-degree relative who has been diagnosed with a idiopathic or familial cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome, systemic amyloidosis,

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