Proteopathic Seeds and Neurodegenerative Diseases

series:Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer's DiseaseThe misfolding and aggregation of specific proteins is an early and obligatory event in many of the age-related neurodegenerative diseases of humans, and appears to occur many years before the onset of clinical symptoms. The initial cause of this pathogenic cascade and the means whereby disease spreads through the nervous system, remain uncertain. A recent surge of research, first instigated ...
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