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[The immune system and Alzheimer's disease].
Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie - 1 Jan 2011
van Exel E, Eikelenboom P, Comijs H C, Kurniawan C, Frölich M, Smit J H, Stek M L, Scheltens P, Eefsting J E, Westendorp R G J
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BACKGROUND: It has still not been established unequivocally whether vascular risk factors and inflammatory reactions, determined by heredity, are a cause or a result of Alzheimer's disease AIM: If the offspring of parents with AD have more risk factors and more frequent and severe inflammatory reactions than the offspring of parents without AD , this argues strongly in favor of a causal relationship between...
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