Aluminum and Amyloid-β in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease

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“we have obtained brain tissues from a Colombian cohort of donors with familial Alzheimer’s disease. We have used established methods to measure the aluminum content of these tissues and we have compared the data with a recently measured dataset for control brain tissues. We report significantly higher levels of aluminum in brain tissues in donors with familial Alzheimer’s disease than in control tissues from donors without neurological impairment or neurodegeneration.” 

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Source: “Aluminum and Amyloid-β in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease”. Mold, Matthew; Linhart, Caroline; Gómez-Ramírez, Johana; Villegas-Lanau, Andrés; Exley, Christopher.
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease doi:10.3233/JAD-191140.

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