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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease and the most common cause of dementia worldwide. AD is caused by the slow aggregation of the amyloid (A) protein into amyloid plaques across the entire brain. Previous medical interventions for AD have focused on breaking apart amyloid plaques into smaller pieces which can be degraded by microglia phagocytosis and degradation in lysosomes. However, emerging evidence suggests that A proteins and plaques evade degradation within (...)
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SAS - Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Aging , Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biological Sciences, (...)