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Adult Neurogenesis, Neural Stem Cells and Alzheimers Disease: Developments, Limitations, Problems and Promises
1 Dec 2009
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible progressive neurodegenerative disease, leading to severe incapacity and death. It is the most common form of dementia among older people. AD is characterized in the brain by amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, neuronal degeneration, aneuploidy and enhanced neurogenesis and by cognitive, behavioral and physical impairments. Inherited mutations in several genes and...
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