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Absence of Apolipoprotein E is associated with exacerbation of prion pathology and promotes microglial neurodegenerative phenotype.
Acta neuropathologica communications - 26 Sept 2021
Pankiewicz Joanna E, Lizińczyk Anita M, Franco Leor A, Diaz Jenny R, Martá-Ariza Mitchell, Sadowski Martin J
Abstract excerpt
Prion diseases or prionoses are a group of rapidly progressing and invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases. The pathogenesis of prionoses is associated with self-replication and connectomal spread of PrPSc, a disease specific conformer of the prion protein. Microglia undergo activation early in the course of prion pathogenesis and exert opposing roles in PrPSc mediated neurodegeneration. While clearance of...
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