For example, the long, narrow muscle cell is designed to contract ... Within every cell (except red blood cells) is a nucleus -- a sphere-like structure separated from the rest of the cell ...

muscle cells, ciliated cells, and villi. Get it, lark? Anyone…? Okay let's move on. An animal cell is made of three main parts a nucleus, cell membrane and cytoplasm, which holds the rest of its ...

Researchers at Goethe University, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Kiel University discover possible method for preventing protein aggregates – Cluster4Future PROXIDRUGS research project.

The result is progressive muscle paralysis ... While in healthy cells TDP-43 is mainly found in soluble form in the cell nucleus, in ALS patients it forms poorly soluble aggregates that mainly ...

If the protein TDP-43 is defective inside a nerve cell it can form neurotoxic aggregates, which are the cause of the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Nerve cells are also ...