Is Alzheimer's Disease Infectious?<br><i>Relative to the CJD Bacterial Infection Model of Neurodegeneration</i>

Is Alzheimer's Disease Infectious?<br><i>Relative to the CJD Bacterial Infection Model of Neurodegeneration</i>

Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been recently considered as a possible brain infection related to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) transmissible dementia model. As with CJD, there is controversy whether the infectious agent is an amyloid protein (prion theory) or a bacterium. In this review, we...

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Main Author: Frank O. Bastian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIMS Press 2015-11-01
Series:AIMS Neuroscience
Subjects:
spiroplasma
Alzheimer's disease
prion
A-β
α-synuclein
prion, bacteria
Parkinson's disease
neurodegenerative disease
amyloid
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