Novel study finds that levels of the neuroprotein sortilin are higher in pancreatic cancer cells than in normal pancreatic cells and sortilin may be a target for treatment, reports The American ...

On the final day of the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, attention at the plenary session turned to another common dementia. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) was the topic of a ...

Progranulin, a raw form of granulin (GRN), landed center stage of neurodegeneration research four years ago (see ARF related news story), when scientists discovered that loss-of-function mutations in ...

Scientists say that an increased level of sortilin in pancreatic cancer cells that may open up the way to developing more effective treatment. Sortilin is emerging as a key player in the regulation of ...

Pancreatic cancer has an extremely poor prognosis; it is the third most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States. In a novel study published in The American Journal of Pathology, published ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: Effects of neurotensin and derived peptides on sSortilin binding. The alternative text for this image may have been ...

MONTREAL, Oct. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Theratechnologies Inc. (“Theratechnologies” or the “Company”) (TSX: TH) (NASDAQ: THTX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and ...

Sortilin, which is a protein expressed on the surface of nerve cells, plays a crucial role in pain development in laboratory mice - and in all likelihood in humans as well. This is the main conclusion ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA granted fast track designation to TH1902 for treatment of certain patients with sortilin-expressing ...

Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death globally. And one of the major culprits involved -- in arteriosclerosis, for example -- is cholesterol. Now, Danish researchers have made a ...