Nystrom, Lynn A.2013-05-062013-05-062005-09-06http://hdl.handle.net/10919/21952Several neurologically based afflictions, such as Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer diseases, have been correlated to a higher than normal presence of a specific type of enzymes, called transglutaminases (TGase) in the human body. TGases, whose function is to catalyze covalent bonds among proteins, are commonly found in several different human tissues.text/htmlIn CopyrightPress releaseVirginia Tech. University Relations