'Foreign' proteins are also implicated in Alzheimer's disease

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s are characterised by the loss of nerve cells and the deposition of proteins in the brain tissue. Scientists have now demonstrated that Alzheimer’s disease does not just – as previously believed – involve the proteins that are attributed to Alzheimer’s, but instead the condition can involve a mixture of interacting proteins from different neurodegenerative diseases.

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