Researchers clarify protein's role in multiple sclerosis
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
This protein - alphaB-crystallin - is not normally found in the brain, but develops in response to the injuries inflicted on nerve cells by multiple ...
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Eye Protein Could Shield Against MS
Washington Post - United States
WEDNESDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- A naturally occurring protein called alphaB-crystallin may help protect against multiple sclerosis-related nerve cell ...
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Stanford Discovery About Multiple Sclerosis
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Stanford just released some news about the role of alphaB-crystallin in multiple sclerosis. "For reasons not yet understood, the immune system considers the expression of the alphaB-crystallin protein in the brain a danger signal and ...
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Cell Division | Full text | SCF Fbx4/alphaB-crystallin cyclin D1 ...
Perng MD, Wen SF, van den IJP, Prescott AR, Quinlan RA: Desmin aggregate formation by R120G alphaB-crystallin is caused by altered filament interactions and ...

AlphaB-crystallin interacts with intermediate filaments in ...
The small heat shock protein alphaB-crystallin interacts with intermediate filament proteins. Using a co-sedimentation assay, we showed that in vitro ...

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The stress protein alphaB-crystallin in the cardiovascular system ... We found that alphaB-crystallin, a stress protein primarily found in the eye lens, ...

Mutation R120G in alphaB-crystallin, which is linked to a desmin ...
alphaB-crystallin, a member of the small heat shock protein family, possesses chaperone-like function. Recently, it has been shown that a missense mutation ...

IngentaConnect Transient Loss of alphaB-Crystallin: An Early ...
The HTM cells express alphaB-crystallin, a small heat shock protein that may have a role in the stabilization and regulation of the cytoskeleton in ...

BioMed Central | Full text | Morphological characterization of the ...
These results indicated that both alphaA- and alphaB-crystallin are necessary for proper fiber cell formation, and that the absence of alpha-crystallin can ...

Acta Physiologica Congress
AlphaB-crystallin is a small heat shock protein that is abundantly expressed ... In the normal rat kidney, alphaB-crystallin mRNA and protein expression is ...

Differential expression of alphaB-crystallin and Hsp27-1 in ...
Expression of the small heat shock protein alphaB-crystallin in differentiated thyroid tumors has been described recently. In this study, we investigated ...

BIOONE Online Journals - Differential expression of alphaB ...
Differential expression of alphaB-crystallin and Hsp27-1 in anaplastic thyroid ... Expression of the small heat shock protein alphaB-crystallin in ...

Cell Stress Protein, AlphaB-Crystallin, Linked To Aggressive ...
A groundbreaking study led by Northwestern University researchers has demonstrated that a protein called alphaB-crystallin, which normally protects cells ...