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The dysregulation of intracellular calcium in Alzheimer disease.
Cell calcium - 1 Feb 2010
Supnet Charlene, Bezprozvanny Ilya
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder worldwide and is at present, incurable. The accumulation of toxic amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide aggregates in AD brain are thought to trigger the extensive synaptic loss and neurodegeneration linked to cognitive decline, an idea that underlies the 'amyloid hypothesis' of AD etiology in both the familal (FAD) and sporadic forms of the disease....
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