Amyloids Shown to Also Play Beneficial Role in Developing Healthy Muscle Tissue

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder report that amyloid proteins, long considered to be key drivers in many neuromuscular diseases, also play a beneficial role in the development of healthy muscle tissue.Ours is the first study to show that amyloid-like structures not only exist in healthy skeletal muscle during regeneration, but are likely important for its formation, says co-first author Thomas Vogler, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate in the department of molecular, cellular, and developme