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Based in Wuzhou, Guangxi Province, Shenguan mainly produces sausage casings using collagen, the protein of connective tissue in animals.
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Professor Holtzman said the result implied that apoE and clusterin worked together to suppress plaque formation by clearing amyloid protein from the brain tissue and surrounding fluid.
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They were looking for human myoglobin, a protein that is found in muscle tissue.
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The patients who had the stem cell marker protein Lamin A present in their tissue were more likely to have an aggressive form of the disease.
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The mice who lacked apoE and clusterin showed signs of higher levels of amyloid protein not only in their brain tissue, also in the fluid surrounding individual brain cells and the fluid surrounding the entire brain.
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The prion is a protein, thought to linger in human tissue, potentially for many years, before any symptoms begin to emerge.
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Duchenne is caused by misspellings in the gene that tells the body to produce a protein called dystrophin, a glue that helps hold muscle tissue together.
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They broke these up, in order to extract cardiac stem cells from them (these cells can be identified by the presence on their surfaces of a particular protein), and then bred the stem cells in tissue cultures until they numbered millions.
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In 1996 bodybuilders started downing whey protein shakes on the theory that ultrafiltered whey would replace damaged muscle tissue.
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