Nature Medicine
4, 394 - 395 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0498-394
Monster plaques: What they tell us about Alzheimer's diseaseBruce A. YanknerDivision of Neuroscience The Children's Hospital and Department of Neurology Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA An unusual variant of Alzheimer's disease challenges the role of classic amyloid plaques in the pathogenesis of dementia (pages 452−455). REFERENCES
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