Nature Medicine
- 12, 889 - 890 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0806-889
Tyrosine kinases: maiming myelin in leprosyRobin J M Franklin & Chao Zhao
The authors are in the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK. rjf1000@cam.ac.uk
kanjiMycobacterium leprae, the bacterium that causes leprosy, causes the breakdown of myelin. This breakdown is now shown to occur through the ErbB2 receptor, a process that can be blocked by Herceptin and kinase inhibitors (pages 961–966).
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