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European BioPharmaceutical Review
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| A number of seemingly unrelated neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, CJD (the human form of 'mad cow' disease) and ALS (motor neurone disease) have all recently been linked to a common pathogenic process called amyloidosis. In each case a specific protein or peptide clumps together in a specific part of the brain to form toxic soluble oligomers and/or insoluble fibres, which are widely believed to cause the progressive degeneration of neurons associated with these diseases. Several academic groups and at least one biotech company are now working on a novel class of synthetic peptide derivatives ('meptides') which can inhibit and reverse this process of protein/peptide aggregation in vitro, and which have the potential to yield effective treatments or perhaps even outright cures for all these diseases. |
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