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Cortical and leptomeningeal cerebrovascular amyloid and white matter pathology in Alzheimer's disease.
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Jan 2000
Roher Alex E, Kuo Yu-Min, Esh Chera, Knebel Carmen, Weiss Nicole, Kalback Walter, Luehrs Dean C, Childress Jennifer L, Beach Thomas G, Weller Roy O, Kokjohn Tyler A
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by neurofibrillary tangles and by the accumulation of beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptides in senile plaques and in the walls of cortical and leptomeningeal arteries as cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). There also is a significant increase of interstitial fluid (ISF) in cerebral white matter (WM), the pathological basis of which is largely unknown. We hypothesized that the...
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