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Human apolipoprotein E redistributes fibrillar amyloid deposition in Tg-SwDI mice.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 14 May 2008
Xu Feng, Vitek Michael P, Colton Carol A, Previti Mary Lou, Gharkholonarehe Nastaran, Davis Judianne, Van Nostrand William E
Abstract excerpt
Human apolipoprotein (ApoE) genotype influences the development of Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). Specific mutations within the amyloid-beta protein (Abeta) peptide have been identified that cause familial forms of CAA. However, the effect of APOE genotype on accumulation of CAA mutant Abeta in brain is not well understood. In the present study, we determined how human ApoE3 or ApoE4...
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