Thursday, April 18, 2013

New Alzheimer's Treatment May Come From Discovering How Plaques Lead To Tangles

Alzheimer's disease has two key hallmarks: accumulation of amyloid protein plaques outside brain cells and of neurofibrillary tangles of tau protein inside brain cells. The plaques appear first, and then the tangles, giving the impression that one causes the other...





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