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Fungal infection in the brain produces changes like those seen in Alzheimer s disease

Fungal infection in the brain produces changes like those seen in Alzheimer s disease
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Common Fungus Might Fuel Alzheimer s Onset - Neuroscience News

The study suggests that the amyloid beta aggregates in Alzheimer’s could be generated both by the brain and by C. albicans.

Fungal infection in the brain produces change

<p>Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions discovered how the fungus <em>Candida albicans</em> enters the brain, activates two separate mechanisms in brain cells that promote its clearance, and, important for the understanding of Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease development, generates amyloid beta (Ab)-like peptides, toxic protein fragments from the amyloid precursor protein that are considered to be at the center of the development of Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease.</p>

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