Alzheimer's patients show elevated active meprin-β in brain and cerebrospinal fluid

by Elena Garrido, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche

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Add as preferred source Cell culture of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Neurons are shown in green and astrocytes in red. Credit: Carlos Avilés Granados. A team from the Altered Molecular Mechanism in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia laboratory, led by Javier Sáez Valero, a researcher at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has identified increased levels of the protein meprin-β in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of people with Alzheimer's disease.