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Intracerebral haemorrhage in Down syndrome: protected or predisposed?

2016-05-12

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Down syndrome (DS), which arises from trisomy of chromosome 21, is associated with deposition of large amounts of amyloid within the central nervous system. Amyloid accumulates in two compartments: as plaques within the brain parenchyma and in vessel walls of the cerebral microvasculature. The parenchymal plaque amyloid is thought to result in an early onset Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia, a phenomenon so commo...

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22937f3a-60e7-5165-93ac-9d88d9456634
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10.12688/f1000research.7819.1
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