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Presenilin-1 C410Y Alzheimer disease plaques contain synaptic proteins.
American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias - 1 Jan 2000
Haleem Kamran, Lippa Carol F, Smith Thomas W, Kowa Hisatomo, Wu Jianlin, Iwatsubo Takeshi
Abstract excerpt
Presenilin-1 (PS-1) mutations are associated with familial Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although beta-amyloid (Abeta) plaques in brain tissue are characteristic of AD patients, space occupying "cotton-wool" plaques (CWPs) lacking dense Abeta cores have also been described in patients with mutations in exon 9 of the PS-1 gene. The composition of CWPs has not been fully described. To better elucidate the composition...
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