'Cargo' Traveling Through a Neuron (VIDEO)

University at Buffalo

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Kinesin and dynein motors carrying the Alzheimer's protein APP travel on microtubule tracks in a single axon in the nerve of a fruit fly larva. This video shows the motors' normal behavior; when the level of presenilin was reduced in a study, the motors increased their velocity.

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Shermali Gunawardena

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