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Role of toll-like receptor signalling in Abeta uptake and clearance.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Nov 2006
Tahara Kazuki, Kim Hong-Duck, Jin Jing-Ji, Maxwell J Adam, Li Ling, Fukuchi Ken-ichiro
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Deposits of amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) in neuritic plaques and cerebral vessels are a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. Fibrillar Abeta deposits are closely associated with inflammatory responses such as activated microglia in brain with this disease. Increasing lines of evidence support the hypothesis that activated microglia, innate immune cells in the CNS, play a pivotal role in the progression...
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