Normal ageing and Alzheimer's disease (AD) have many features in common and, in many respects, both conditions only differ by quantitative criteria. A variety of genetic, medical and environmental factors modulate the ageing-related processes leading the brain into the devastation of AD. In accordan
A unifying hypothesis of alzheimer's disease
โ Scribed by Heininger, Kurt
- Book ID
- 122488291
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0197-4580
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