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Reactivation of HSV‐1 in the brain of patients with familial Alzheimer's disease
18 Jun 2004
Abstract excerpt
Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) has been proposed as an environmental risk factor for sporadic Alzheimer's disease, although this issue is still in dispute. The involvement of HSV-1 in the pathogenesis of familial Alzheimer's disease, the uncommon type of Alzheimer's disease, has not been addressed yet. We investigated formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded, postmortem brain tissue sections of three patients with...
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