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AMY plaques in familial AD: comparison with sporadic Alzheimer's disease.
Neurology - 11 Jan 2000
Lippa C F, Schmidt M L, Nee L E, Bird T, Nochlin D, Hulette C, Mori H, Lee V M, Trojanowski J Q
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To assess AMY expression in familial AD (FAD). BACKGROUND: The discovery of nonbeta-amyloid (Abeta), plaque-like deposits composed of a 100-kd protein (AMY) in sporadic AD (SAD) brains prompted us to determine whether these plaques (AMY plaques) also occur in AD due to mutations of the presenilin-1 (PS-1), presenilin-2 (PS-2), or the amyloid precursor protein (APP) genes. METHODS: We used...
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