Can Alzheimer's Disease-Associated Peptide Fight Bacterial Infection? (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Can Alzheimer's Disease-Associated Peptide Fight Bacterial Infection? (1 of 2)

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β-amyloid fibrils propagate from yeast surfaces and capture Candida albicans in culture medium. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 25, 2016, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.K.V. Kumar at Massachusetts General Hospital in Charlestown, MA, and colleagues was titled, 'Amyloid-ß peptide protects against microbial infection in mouse and worm models of Alzheimer's disease.'

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D.K.V. Kumar <i>et al. / Science Translational Medicine</i> (2016)

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