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Role of water-soluble amyloid-beta in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.
International journal of experimental pathology - 1 Jun 2005
Tabaton Massimo, Piccini Alessandra
Abstract excerpt
Water-soluble amyloid-beta (wsAbeta) is present in cerebral cortex of subjects at risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) as well as in normal elderly subjects as a mixture of three major amyloid-beta (Abeta) species: 1-42, py3-42 and py11-42. The three wsAbeta species are nondetectable in brains of young people, free of immunohistochemically detectable amyloid plaques. In the brains of Down's syndrome and APP-mutant...
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