On the issue of transmissibility of Alzheimer disease: A critical review |
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| Authors: | Christian Schmidt André Karch Carsten Korth Inga Zerr |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Clinical Dementia Center; Department of Neurology; Georg-August University; Goettingen, Germany;2.Department of Neuropathology; Heinrich-Heine University; Duesseldorf, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Results from recent experiments with rodents imply that Alzheimer disease might be inducible by seeding Aβ peptides into recipient animals. In respect to this new experimental data, public health aspects as well as epidemiological data have to be reevaluated. In this article, the available experimental and epidemiological data are reviewed. |
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| Keywords: | Alzheimer transmissibility prion dementia epidemiology |
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