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Loss of LR11/SORLA enhances early pathology in a mouse model of amyloidosis: evidence for a proximal role in Alzheimer's disease.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 26 Nov 2008
Dodson Sara E, Andersen Olav M, Karmali Vinit, Fritz Jason J, Cheng Dongmei, Peng Junmin, Levey Allan I, Willnow Thomas E, Lah James J
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia, resulting in progressive neuronal death and debilitating damage to brain loci that mediate memory and higher cognitive function. While pathogenic genetic mutations have been implicated in approximately 2% of AD cases, the proximal events that underlie the common, sporadic form of the disease are incompletely understood. Converging lines of evidence...
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