CRISPRiEGFR

Yuk Yee Leung1, Pavel P Kuksa1, Luke Carter1

  • 1Penn Neurodegeneration Genomics Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA.

NPJ dementia
|December 22, 2025
PubMed
まとめ

この研究では、後期発症型アルツハイマー病(LOAD)におけるEGFR発現を調節する新規ミクログリアエンハンサーが明らかにされました。この発見は、EGFR阻害剤がLOADの潜在的な治療戦略であることを示唆しています。

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