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Altered amyloid protein processing in platelets of patients with Alzheimer disease.
Archives of neurology - 1 Feb 1997
Rosenberg R N, Baskin F, Fosmire J A, Risser R, Adams P, Svetlik D, Honig L S, Cullum C M, Weiner M F
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: beta-Amyloid peptide, the core component of neuritic plaques in brain areas in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), is 1 cleavage product of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) in neurons and platelets. Alternate cleavage products of intact 140- to 150-kd APPs in platelets include nonamyloidogenic 120- to 130-kd and 110-kd isoforms. The possible differential significance of these 2 isoforms,...
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