Iron Banded Worms Drying Out Of Blood Could Be Linked To Parkinson's And Alzheimer's

ScienceDaily (Feb. 9, 2008) — Researchers at the University of Warwick and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur have discovered that the mechanism that we rely on to transport iron safely through our blood stream can, in certain circumstances, collapse into a state which grows long worm-like "fibrils" banded by lines of iron rust. This process could provide the first insight into how iron gets deposited in the brain to cause some forms of Parkinson's & Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases.

Una disfunción del mecanismo de transporte del hierro puede estar entre las causas de algunos tipos de Parkinson. Articulo entero en ingles...