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Archive Home > 2013 > February > 08 > Blocking a protein may ease depression

Blocking a protein may ease depression

By Elizabeth Lopatto / The Bulletin
February 8, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO — Blocking a protein in the brain that prevents neural stem cells from maturing may lead to a potential new way to treat depression, one of the most common mental disorders in the United States.

After the gene that makes the protein, called sFRP3, was deleted in mice, their brains....

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