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A Synergistic Dysfunction of Mitochondrial Fission/Fusion Dynamics and Mitophagy in Alzheimer's Disease
3 Jun 2010
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia in the elderly, can have a late-onset sporadic or an early-onset familial origin. In both cases, the neuropathological hallmarks are the same: senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. Despite AD having a proteinopathic nature, there is strong evidence for an organelle dysfunction-related neuropathology, namely dysfunctional mitochondria. In this...
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