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β-amyloid

  1. Pyrrhus

    Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives (Daily Kos article)

    Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives (Daily Kos article) https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/22/2111914/-Two-decades-of-Alzheimer-s-research-may-be-based-on-deliberate-fraud-that-has-cost-millions-of-lives In 2019, it was...
  2. SWAlexander

    Β-Amyloid Deposits in Young COVID Patients

    Abstract A 58-year-old woman who died of COVID infection was included as a control subject in an ongoing autopsy study of the neuropathology of military traumatic brain injury (TBI). An immunohistochemical stain for β-amyloid done only because that stain is performed on all the cases in the...
  3. L

    Infection Defense May Spur Alzheimers

    Infection Defense May Spur Alzheimers By GINA KOLATA Published: March 8, 2010 For years, a prevailing theory has been that one of the chief villains in Alzheimers disease has no real function other than as a waste product that the brain never properly disposed of. The material, a...