Strategies to alter the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

doi:10.1016/s0958-1669(96)80070-x

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Strategies to alter the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

Current opinion in biotechnology - 1 Dec 1996

Siman R, Scott R W

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Recent advances in the genetics of familial Alzheimer's disease provide direction for therapeutic strategies to alter the progressive neurodegeneration. The rationale is particularly strong for targeting the deposition of amyloid into neuritic plaques, but attention has also turned to abnormaliti...

Topics

Alzheimer Disease
Amyloid
Apolipoproteins E
Disease Progression
Drug Design
Humans
Membrane Proteins
Mutation
Nerve Degeneration
Nerve Tissue Proteins
Presenilin-1

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