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Aβ38 in the Brains of Patients with Sporadic and Familial Alzheimer's Disease and Transgenic Mouse Models
14 Feb 2014
Abstract excerpt
The pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is believed to be closely dependent on deposits of neurotoxic amyloid-β peptides (Aβ), which become abundantly present throughout the central nervous system in advanced stages of the disease. The different Aβ peptides existing are generated by subsequent cleavage of the amyloid-β protein precursor (AβPP) and may vary in length and differ at their C-terminus. Despite...
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