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Twenty Years of Presenilins--Important Proteins in Health and Disease.
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) - 27 Oct 2015
Walter Jochen
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by progressive decline in cognitive functions associated with depositions of aggregated proteins in the form of extracellular plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. Extracellular plaques contain characteristic fibrils of amyloid β peptides (Aβ); tangles consist of paired helical filaments of the microtubuli-associated protein tau. Although AD manifests...
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