Genetic basis of neurodegeneration in familial Alzheimer's disease.

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Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is characterized by two types of brain lesions, referred to as senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Moreover, neuronal cell loss and synaptic degeneration appear in affected regions of the brain. A series of endoproteolytic cleavages of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) controlled by alpha, beta, and gamma-secretases leads to a formation of...

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