Peptide may offer multipronged approach to neurodegenerative disease

Alzheimer's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders are among medicine's most challenging conditions, progressively impairing memory, movement and independence. Now, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have identified a naturally occurring peptide—a small protein fragment called catestatin (CST)—that may help counter several key processes driving neurodegeneration.

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