β-peptide immunization -: A possible new treatment for Alzheimer disease

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Schenk, DB [1 ]
Seubert, P [1 ]
Lieberburg, I [1 ]
Wallace, J [1 ]
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[1] Elan Pharmaceut, S San Francisco, CA 94080 USA
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10.1001/archneur.57.7.934
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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Research on the pathophysiological characteristics of Alzheimer disease (AD) over the past decade has been directed toward the ultimate goal of developing a disease-modifying treatment to control or prevent the disease. A report recently published in Nature(1) describes for the first time a treatment that may both prevent and treat the progression of Alzheimer disease. The treatment ironically involves immunization with the pathological p-amyloid peptide itself to generate an immune response targeted against the amyloid plaques in the brain. These findings have raised a number of scientific and clinical questions that are discussed below.
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