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Article: What keeps the nervous system intact?
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- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
- Article date:
- April 15, 2002
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2002 APR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S) and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found, for the first time, that certain proteins maintain the nervous system architecture after the developing body lays down the wiring pattern.
The finding may someday lead to a better understanding of some neurological diseases but, for now, is changing neuroscientists' fundamental understanding of nervous system anatomy.
The investigators, led by Dr. Oliver Hobert, P&S assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, have identified a family of six proteins, called ZIGs, ...