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Apolipoprotein E, plaques, tangles and cholinergic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 17 Jan 1996
Beffert U, Poirier J
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Apolipoprotein E is a plasma cholesterol and phospholipid transporter which plays a central role in lipoprotein metabolism in the brain. Apolipoprotein E is a polymorphic protein with three common alleles in the general population, designated epsilon 2, epsilon 3 and epsilon 4 coding for proteins ApoE2, ApoE3 and ApoE4, respectively. Recent findings have demonstrated a significant relationship between the epsilon...
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