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A prion protein connection

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More than 20 million people worldwide have Alzheimer's disease, yet its causes remain mostly uncertain. Fresh findings provide molecular clues, linking this disease to another neurodegenerative disorder.

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Figure 1: PrP and Aβ-induced synaptic toxicity.

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  1. Moustapha Cisse and Lennart Mucke are at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and in the Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA. lmucke@gladstone.ucsf.edu,

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Cisse, M., Mucke, L. A prion protein connection. Nature 457, 1090–1091 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4571090a

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