Biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease
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biochemistry-of-alzheimer-s-disease-205-9693276
title:
Biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease
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The biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, is not yet very well understood. Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been identified as a proteopathy: a protein misfolding disease due to the accumulation of abnormally folded amyloid beta (Aβ) protein in the brain. Amyloid beta is a short peptide that is an abnormal proteolytic byproduct of the transmembrane protein amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP), whose function is unclear but thought to be involved in neuronal developm
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemistry_of_Alzheimer%27s_disease
date created:
2006-09-29T02:45:15Z
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2024-09-10T09:06:02Z
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