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Maternal antibodies facilitate Amyloid-β clearance by activating Fc-receptor-Syk-mediated phagocytosis.
Communications biology - 12 Mar 2021
Illouz Tomer, Nicola Raneen, Ben-Shushan Linoy, Madar Ravit, Biragyn Arya, Okun Eitan
Abstract excerpt
Maternal antibodies (MAbs) protect against infections in immunologically-immature neonates. Maternally transferred immunity may also be harnessed to target diseases associated with endogenous protein misfolding and aggregation, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-pathology in Down syndrome (DS). While familial early-onset AD (fEOAD) is associated with autosomal dominant mutations in the APP, PSEN1,2 genes,...
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