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Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's disease: the lesson from tauopathies.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Apr 2007
Sorrentino G, Bonavita V
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The Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis suggests that the decisive event in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the deposition of fibrils of beta-amyloid protein (Abeta). The main objection to this hypothesis is the weak correlation between plaque load and severity of dementia. The good correlation between synapt...
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