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Regulatory RNA goes awry in Alzheimer's disease

Nature Medicine volume 14, pages 711–712 (2008)Cite this article

An antisense RNA may contribute to Alzheimer's disease by upregulating β-secretase (pages 723–730).

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Figure 1: Dysregulation of BACE1 and Aβ production in Alzheimer's disease.

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  1. Peter St. George-Hyslop is in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, UK. He is also in the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital and Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, 6 Queens Park Crescent, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H2, Canada. phs22@cam.ac.uk,

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  2. Department of Biochemistry, Christian Haass is at the Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich and Adolf-Butenandt-Institute, Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Schillerstrasse 44, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 80336 Munich, Germany.,

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