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Window opened on Alzheimer's conundrum

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Mouse-brain study shows protein plaques to be a cause of the problem.

The brain protein plaques characteristic of Alzheimer?s disease can form extraordinarily fast, and seem to be the starting point of further degeneration in the brain ? at least in mice.

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  1. Meyer-Luehmann, M. et al. Nature 451, 720?724 (2008).

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Ledford, H. Window opened on Alzheimer's conundrum. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.551

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