Alzheimer’s disease(AD)is the most common form of dementia-the 7th leading cause of death worldwide.At the tissue level,AD is characterized by the presence of extracellular amyloid plaques that are comprised primaril...Alzheimer’s disease(AD)is the most common form of dementia-the 7th leading cause of death worldwide.At the tissue level,AD is characterized by the presence of extracellular amyloid plaques that are comprised primarily of the amyloid-βpeptide(Aβ),and by intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles composed of tau.Molecular genetics of early-onset AD and longitudinal brain-imaging studies of late-onset AD indicate that extracellular Aβdeposition,in general,precedes neurofibrillary tangle formation in neurons(Hampel et al.,2021;Young-Pearse et al.,2023).展开更多
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文摘Alzheimer’s disease(AD)is the most common form of dementia-the 7th leading cause of death worldwide.At the tissue level,AD is characterized by the presence of extracellular amyloid plaques that are comprised primarily of the amyloid-βpeptide(Aβ),and by intraneuronal neurofibrillary tangles composed of tau.Molecular genetics of early-onset AD and longitudinal brain-imaging studies of late-onset AD indicate that extracellular Aβdeposition,in general,precedes neurofibrillary tangle formation in neurons(Hampel et al.,2021;Young-Pearse et al.,2023).
