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Study Reveals Key Alzheimer's Pathway – And Blocking It Reverses Symptoms in Mice


A sequence of stress signals among specialized clean-up cells in the brain could at last reveal why some immune responses can cause significant nerve degeneration that results in the loss of memory, judgement, and awareness behind Alzheimer's disease.

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