Targeting the LANDO pathway holds a potential clue to treating Alzheimer’s disease

Targeting the LANDO pathway holds a potential clue to treating Alzheimer's disease
Bradlee Heckmann, Ph.D., of St. Jude Immunology. Credit: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are advancing understanding of a potential Alzheimer’s disease treatment. The work focuses on LC3-associated endocytosis (LANDO) and its role in neuroinflammation. The results appeared as an advance online publication today in Science Advances.

The researchers previously discovered the LANDO pathway in microglial cells, the primary immune cells of the brain and central nervous system. Scientists found that when genes required for this pathway are deleted, Alzheimer’s accelerates in a ….

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