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The pervasiveness of interleukin-1 in alzheimer pathogenesis: a role for specific polymorphisms in disease risk.
Experimental gerontology - 1 Jul 2000
Griffin W S, Nicoll J A, Grimaldi L M, Sheng J G, Mrak R E
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin-1 (IL-1) has been implicated as a key molecule in Alzheimer pathogenesis based on findings of an IL-1 overexpression in Alzheimer brain that is directly related to plaque progression and tangle formation, and on findings that IL-1 induces excessive synthesis, translation, and processing of neuronal beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP) as well as synthesis of most known plaque-associated proteins....
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