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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Plaques and Tangles"”.
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A bright idea? : the promise and peril of a memory drug
… drug have shown a marked improvement in learning and memory. They are able to master elaborate mazes in half the time of their all-natural counterparts. Wurtman theorizes that the memory loss and dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease is caused not by amyloid plaques and tangles but by a …
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Oxidative, inflammatory and vascular factors in Alzheimer's disease
… features of AD, in particular the plaques and tangles, have been the particular focus of most aetiological theories. It is well accepted that AD is a multifactorial disease, with alterations to a variety of brain structures and cell types, including neurons, glia and the brain …
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Digital Morphometry : A Taxonomy Of Morphological Filters And Feature Parameters With Application To Alzheimer's Disease Research
… to extract the features of interest, and then the actual measurement of these features. With regard to the first step the morphological filters of mathematical morphology provide a wealth of suitable geometric transfomations. Traditional radiometric and spatial enhancement techniques …
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Characterisation of transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease
… have been developed to study the molecular and pathological alterations associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The 3xTg mouse is widely used as a research tool and carries mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (Swedish APP K670N/M671L), presenilin 1 (PS1M146V) and tau (TauP301L) …
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The Monument of Memories as a place/space of multifarious rhetorical action
… directed attention away from fostering an understanding of the disease as it is socially experienced and toward the intricacies of determining its neurological properties. This study analyzes the Alzheimer Society of Windsor and Essex County’s Monument of Memories as a cultural form with the …