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Senile plaques and Alzheimer's disease
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Professor Kenneth Kosik describes senile plaques, an extracellular collection of a-beta protein. It is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease.
Transcript:
As many people now are aware, the classical stigmata of Alzheimer’s disease, the classical hallmarks, are plaques and tangles. The senile plaque is an extracellular collection of protein. It’s a protein that is referred to as the a-beta. It’s a fragment of a normal protein we all have called the amyloid precursor protein. It gets chopped into a smaller piece called a-beta that then collects, assembles outside of cells, and forms this aggregate mass that forms a ball between the neurons, between the interstices of the brain, and pushes aside all of the fine ramifications and connections of brain cells to form what we call a plaque.
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senile, plaques, amyloid precursor protein, abeta, interstice, kenneth, kosik
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