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Alzheimer's may seed itself like mad cow disease

21 September 2006

Proteins taken from the brains of Alzheimer's patients and injected into the brains of genetically engineered mice trigger Alzheimer's-like lesions in the mouse brains, researchers report.

The findings suggest that the protein clumps associated with Alzheimer's disease could possibly act as a "seed" just like the prions do in prion diseases such as "mad cow" disease.

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