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Women with the Alzheimer's risk marker ApoE4 lose Aβ-specific CD4⁺ T cells 10-20 years before men.
Translational psychiatry - 29 Jul 2014
Begum A N, Cunha C, Sidhu H, Alkam T, Scolnick J, Rosario E R, Ethell D W
Abstract excerpt
Adaptive immunity to self-antigens causes autoimmune disorders, such as multiple sclerosis, psoriasis and type 1 diabetes; paradoxically, T- and B-cell responses to amyloid-β (Aβ) reduce Alzheimer's disease (AD)-associated pathology and cognitive impairment in mouse models of the disease. The manipulation of adaptive immunity has been a promising therapeutic approach for the treatment of AD, although vaccine and...
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