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Down's Syndrome: Up‐Regulation of β‐Amyloid Protein Precursor and τ mRNAs and Their Defective Coordination
1 Mar 1994
Abstract excerpt
Almost all patients > 40 years of age with Down's syndrome (DS) develop the pathology characteristic of Alzheimer's disease: abundant beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. We have investigated the gene expression of beta-amyloid protein precursor (APP) and tau in DS and age-matched control brains and found that levels of both mRNAs were significantly elevated in DS. Such up-regulation was not observed...
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