Article
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 direct...
Topics
- Age of Onset
- Alzheimer Disease
- Amyloid beta-Peptides
- Animals
- Clinical Trials as Topic
- Humans
- Mutation
- Peptide Fragments
