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Lewy body pathology in familial Alzheimer disease: evidence for disease- and mutation-specific pathologic phenotype.
Archives of neurology - 1 Mar 2006
Leverenz James B, Fishel Mark A, Peskind Elaine R, Montine Thomas J, Nochlin David, Steinbart Ellen, Raskind Murray A, Schellenberg Gerard D, Bird Thomas D, Tsuang Debby
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BACKGROUND: The origin and significance of Lewy bodies and neurites (Lewy body pathology [LBP]) in Alzheimer disease (AD) are poorly understood. OBJECTIVE: To examine LBP in the brainstem, limbic cortex, and neocortex of a large number of familial AD cases with mutations in 2 presenilin (PSEN) genes. METHODS: Twenty-five familial AD cases with 9 known PSEN 1 mutations and 14 familial AD cases with a single PSEN 2...
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