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Learning How the Brain Takes Out Its Trash May Help Decode Neurological Diseases

Lysosome as the engine behind garbage uptake in the cell. Image credit: Haoxing Xu

ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2013.  Imagine that garbage haulers don’t exist. Slowly, the trash accumulates in our offices, our homes, it clogs the streets and damages our cars, causes illness and renders normal life impossible.

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Garbage in the brain, in the form of dead cells, must also be removed before it accumulates, because it can cause both rare and common neurological diseases, such…

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