Researchers map glycosylation patterns associated with Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer's disease
PET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer’s disease. Credit: public domain

Using new methodology, University of Kentucky researchers have mapped the variations in sugar chains attached to brain proteins from deceased healthy individuals or individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.

Thus far, no effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are available. New approaches to preventing the progression of this devastating neurological disease are desperately needed.

The laboratories of Ramon Sun, Ph.D., assistant professor of neuroscience in the UK College of Medicine and Markey Cancer Center researcher, and Matthew Gentry, Ph. D., professor of molecular and cellular…

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