Cellular and molecular biology of Alzheimer's disease and animal models.

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Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common dementing disorder of late life, is a major cause of disability and death in the elderly. Neurobiological, genetic, and molecular studies have defined the vulnerable neural systems, abnormalities in cytoskeletal proteins in neurons, the biology of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) and beta-amyloid (A beta, beta A4), and several APP mutations linked to the disease....

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