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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Alzheimer's Pathology in the Brains of Living Transgenic Mice: A New Tool in Alzheimer's Disease Research
17 Jan 2007
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the elderly. Cardinal pathologic features of AD are amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, and most in the field believe that the initiating events ultimately leading to clinical AD center on disordered metabolism of amyloid beta protein. Mouse models of AD have been created by inserting one or more human mutations associated with disordered...
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