Gain in brain immunity in the oldest-old differentiates cognitively normal from demented individuals.

BACKGROUND:Recent findings suggest that Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathological features (neuritic plaques and NFTs) are not strongly associated with dementia in extreme old (over 90 years of age) and compel a search for neurobiological indices of dementia in this rapidly growing segment of...

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Main Authors: Pavel Katsel, Weilun Tan, Vahram Haroutunian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-10-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2764344?pdf=render