News tagged with lipid rafts

Protein in fat cells that stimulates inflammatory signaling helps put gears in motion for onset of diet-induced obesity

Poor diet and lifestyle choices set the stage for obesity and diabetes, but the immune system plays a relatively underappreciated role in accelerating this process. Metabolic changes in fat cells stimulate ...

Medical research Mar 15, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Alzheimer's protein structure offers new treatment directions

The molecular structure of a protein involved in Alzheimer's disease – and the surprising discovery that it binds cholesterol – could lead to new therapeutics for the disease, Vanderbilt University ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia May 31, 2012 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0 |