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Nature Medicine  1, 120 - 122 (1995)
doi:10.1038/nm0295-120

Sand in the sheets

Scott R. Diehl1

1Molecular Epidemiology and Disease Indicators Branch, DEODP, NIDR, NIH Bethesda, MD 20892 U.S.A.

A demonstration of inhibition of beta-sheets in both reactive amyloid, using an in vivo mouse model, and synthetic Alzheimer (beta) amyloid, in vitro (pages 143−148).

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