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Hypercholesterolemia accelerates intraneuronal accumulation of Aβ oligomers resulting in memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease model mice.
Life sciences - 10 Dec 2012
Umeda Tomohiro, Tomiyama Takami, Kitajima Erika, Idomoto Toshiki, Nomura Sachiko, Lambert Mary P, Klein William L, Mori Hiroshi
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AIMS: Hypercholesterolemia is known to be a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), and diet-induced hypercholesterolemia has been shown to accelerate amyloid pathology in animals. While growing evidence has shown that synaptic and cognitive dysfunction in AD is associated with intraneuronal ac...
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