Finding may lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative disease and stroke

In degenerative brain diseases and after stroke, nerve cells die while their support cells activate the brain's immune system to cause further damage. Now Jonathan Gilthorpe, Adrian Pini and Andrew Lumsden at the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King's College London, have found that a single protein, histone H1, causes these distinct outcomes...

Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news