Alzheimer Disease
Amyloid accumulation in Alzheimer disease is response to chronic stress
Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 1st, 2004
"Amyloid deposition within cerebral vessels, or cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), is common in advanced age and even more common in Alzheimer disease. CAA may be complicated by lobar intracerebral hemorrhage, while rare kindreds of autosomal dominant CAA also show propensity for intracerebral hemorrhage, due to germline mutations in specific amyloidogenic precursor proteins and apparent compromise of structural integrity of the blood vessel wall due to marked amyloid deposition. The relationship between cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive dysfunction, however, is less clear," scientists in...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2004-09-01)
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