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Different dendrite and dendritic spine alterations in basal and apical arbors in mutant human amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice.
Brain research - 12 Jul 2006
Alpár Alán, Ueberham Uwe, Brückner Martina K, Seeger Gudrun, Arendt Thomas, Gärtner Ulrich
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The extracellular deposition of amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) in brain parenchyma is one of the characteristic features of Alzheimer's disease and is suggested to induce reactive and degenerative changes in neuronal cell bodies, axons and dendritic processes. In particular, within and in close proximity to amyloid plaques, distinctive morphological alterations have been observed, including changes in neurite...
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