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Spontaneous hemorrhagic stroke in a mouse model of cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 1 Mar 2001
Winkler D T, Bondolfi L, Herzig M C, Jann L, Calhoun M E, Wiederhold K H, Tolnay M, Staufenbiel M, Jucker M
Abstract excerpt
A high risk factor for spontaneous and often fatal lobar hemorrhage is cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). We now report that CAA in an amyloid precursor protein transgenic mouse model (APP23 mice) leads to a loss of vascular smooth muscle cells, aneurysmal vasodilatation, and in rare cases, vesse...
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