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Painful nerve condition may be treated by blocking protein
London: Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have for the first time identified a gene that pulls the plug on ailing nerve cell branches from within the nerve cell, which may trigger the painful condition known as neuropathy. The researchers have shown that blocking the dual leucine zipper kinase (DLK) gene inhibits degeneration of ailing nerve cell branches, and believe