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Modulation of beta-amyloid production and fibrillization.
Biochemical Society symposium - 1 Jan 2001
Allsop D, Twyman L J, Davies Y, Moore S, York A, Swanson L, Soutar I
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in old age and presently affects an estimated 4 million people in the U.S.A. and 0.75 million people in the U.K. It is a relentless, degenerative brain disease, characterized by progressive cognitive impairment. In the final stages of the disease, patients are often bedridden, doubly incontinent and unable to speak or to recognize close relatives....
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