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The role of A beta 42 in Alzheimer's disease.
Journal of physiology, Paris - 1 Jan 2000
Younkin S G
Abstract excerpt
Our recent studies of plasma, fibroblasts, transfected cells and transgenic mice show that a fundamental effect of the mutations linked to familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD) is to increase the extracellular concentration of A beta 42. This effect of the FAD-linked mutations is likely to be directly related to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) because A beta 42 is deposited early and selectively in the...
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