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Long-term prevention of Alzheimer's disease-like behavioral deficits in PDAPP mice carrying a mutation in Asp664.
Behavioural brain research - 22 Aug 2008
Galvan Veronica, Zhang Junli, Gorostiza Olivia F, Banwait Surita, Huang Wei, Ataie Marina, Tang Huidong, Bredesen Dale E
Abstract excerpt
The deficits of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are believed to result, at least in part, from neurotoxicity of beta-amyloid (Abeta), a set of 38-43 amino acid fragments derived from the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP). In addition, APP generates the APP-C31 and Jcasp toxic fragments intracellularly by cleavage at Asp664. We reported that mutation of Asp664 to Ala in a FAD-human APP transgene prevented AD-like...
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