Rationale for the development of an Alzheimer's disease vaccine

• Main Authors: Ping Kwan (Author), Haruki Konno (Author), Ka Yan Chan (Author), Larry Baum (Author)
• פורמט: ספר
• יצא לאור: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• נושאים: article
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Vaccination traditionally has targeted infectious agents and thus has not heretofore been used to prevent neurodegenerative illness. However, amyloid β (Aβ) or tau, which can act like infectious proteins, or prions, might induce Alzheimer's disease (AD). Furthermore, evidence suggests that trad...