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...
Main Author: | Frank O. Bastian |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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AIMS Press
2015-11-01
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Series: | AIMS Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://www.aimspress.com/neuroscience/article/504/fulltext.html |
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