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Colocalization Of Odc And Amyloid Plaques In Patients With Alzheimer’S Disease And Down Syndrome, Julia S. Gielczynski
Colocalization Of Odc And Amyloid Plaques In Patients With Alzheimer’S Disease And Down Syndrome, Julia S. Gielczynski
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Polyamines, and their rate-limiting enzyme ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), are crucial for many functions in the central nervous system but levels decrease with age. In neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), polyamine levels begin to increase again. Yet, there are still many unanswered questions surrounding polyamine’s possible role in AD, especially in those with Down Syndrome (DS), who also have an extra copy of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and tend to get AD far earlier than the general population. We aim to investigate if there is colocalization between amyloid plaques and Ornithine Decarboxylase (ODC) in patients with AD and AD/DS, …