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    Medin co-aggregates with vascular amyloid-β in Alzheimer’s disease

    Aggregates of medin amyloid (a fragment of the protein MFG-E8, also known as lactadherin) are found in the vasculature of almost all humans over 50 years of age1,2, making it the most common amyloid currently kno...

    Jessica Wagner, Karoline Degenhardt, Marleen Veit, Nikolaos Louros in Nature (2022)

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    Experimental evidence for temporal uncoupling of brain Aβ deposition and neurodegenerative sequelae

    Brain Aβ deposition is a key early event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer´s disease (AD), but the long presymptomatic phase and poor correlation between Aβ deposition and clinical symptoms remain puzzling. To ...

    Christine Rother, Ruth E. Uhlmann, Stephan A. Müller in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Innate immune memory in the brain shapes neurological disease hallmarks

    Innate immune memory is a vital mechanism of myeloid cell plasticity that occurs in response to environmental stimuli and alters subsequent immune responses. Two types of immunological imprinting can be distin...

    Ann-Christin Wendeln, Karoline Degenhardt, Lalit Kaurani, Michael Gertig in Nature (2018)