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Amyloid plaques may act as trigger for Alzheimer’s disease – News-Medical.Net
The brains of people living with Alzheimer’s are riddled with plaques: protein aggregates consisting mainly of amyloid-beta.
The brains of people living with Alzheimer’s are riddled with plaques: protein aggregates consisting mainly of amyloid-beta. Despite decades of research, the real contribution of these plaques to the disease process is still not clear.
A research team led by Bart De Strooper and Mark Fiers at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research in Leuven, Belgium used pioneering technologies to study in detail what happens in brain cells in the direct vicinity of plaques.
Their findings, …
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