Arctic Therapeutics research suggests preventative strategy against HCCAA

N-acetylcysteine (NAC) shows promise to treat hereditary cystatin C amyloid angiopathy (HCCAA) HCCAA – a subtype of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) – is an ultra-rare Icelandic amyloid disease due to a mutation in the CST3 gene encoding for the protease inhibitor, cystatin C. HCCAA…