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[Treatment strategy of Alzheimer's disease: pause in clinical trials of Abeta vaccine and next steps].
Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo - 1 Jul 2010
Kuzuhara Shigeki
Abstract excerpt
The important pathognomonic features of Alzheimer disease (AD) brain are the occurrence of abundant neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) in neurons and presence of extracellular deposits of beta-amyloid (Abeta)- senile plaques. In the early 1980s, the NFTs were characterized, and cerebral amyloid was purified; further the amino acid sequences of the tau protein in the NFTs and of Abeta were identified....
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