## Abstract The histopathological hallmarks of Alzheimer disease are the extracellular amyloid plaques, composed principally of the amyloid beta peptide, and the intracellular neurofibrillary tangles, composed of paired helical filaments of the microtubule‐associated protein, tau. Other histopathol
Classification and basic pathology of Alzheimer disease
✍ Scribed by Charles Duyckaerts; Benoît Delatour; Marie-Claude Potier
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 864 KB
- Volume
- 118
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-6322
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