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Record Nr.

UNINA9910367750403321

Autore

Macreadie Ian

Titolo

Molecular Mechanism of Alzheimer's Disease / Ian Macreadie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019

ISBN

9783039214082

303921408X

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (228 p.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related neurological disease that affects tens of millions of people, in addition to their carers. Hallmark features of AD include plaques composed of amyloid beta, as well as neurofibrillary tangles of tau protein. However, despite more than a century of study, the cause of Alzheimer's disease remains unresolved. The roles of amyloid beta and tau are being questioned and other causes of AD are now under consideration. The contributions of researchers, model organisms, and various hypotheses will be examined in this Special Issue.