Conference Proceedings
Emerging Alzheimer's disease therapies: Focusing on the future
JQ Trojanowski, I Lieberburg, C Lemere, S Gandy, A Bush, B Frangione, M Citron, YM Li, VMY Lee, S Sisodia, C Clark, J Karlawish
Neurobiology of Aging | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2002
Abstract
The Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) organized a 1 day symposium entitled "Emerging Alzheimer's disease Therapies: Focusing On The Future" on November 7th, 2001 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. The agenda (Fig. 1 Emerging Alzheimer's disease therapies: focusing on the future.) focused on novel therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) designed to prevent/eliminate Aβ deposits in the brains of AD patients. While fibrillar Aβ deposits known as senile plaques (SPs) and intraneuronal tau fibrils known as neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are diagnostic of AD, >50% of patients with familial or sporadic AD as well as elderly Down's syndrome patients with AD harb..
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