Alzheimer's disease transmitted to mice
 

Mice injected with Alzheimer's cast new light on dementia

Alok Jha guardian.co.uk, Sunday 7 June 2009 19.11 BST

Scientists have found that harmful tangles of proteins that cause diseases such as Alzheimer's can be transmitted from one brain to another, spreading and causing damage after being injected into the brains of mice. The researchers stressed, however, that Alzheimer's was not contagious and said it could not be caught, for example, through blood transfusions.

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Alzheimer's and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread13175.html



Sunday, June 7, 2009


ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE IS TRANSMISSIBLE


http://betaamyloidcjd.blogspot.com/2...smissible.html

Transmission and spreading of tauopathy in transgenic mouse brain
 

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Nature Cell Biology Published online: 7 June 2009 | doi:10.1038/ncb1901

Transmission and spreading of tauopathy in transgenic mouse brain

Florence Clavaguera1, Tristan Bolmont2, R. Anthony Crowther3, Dorothee Abramowski4, Stephan Frank1, Alphonse Probst1, Graham Fraser3, Anna K. Stalder5, Martin Beibel4, Matthias Staufenbiel4, Mathias Jucker2, Michel Goedert3,6 & Markus Tolnay1,6

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Hyperphosphorylated tau makes up the filamentous intracellular inclusions of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease1.

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