Peptide p3 may play a neuroprotective role in the brain

  • Wenfei Han
  • , Tingting Ji
  • , Bing Mei*
  • , Jiansheng Su
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related neurodegenerative disease. The amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide is considered a major etiological factor in the development of AD. BACE1-deficient mice and forebrain-specific conditional presenilin1 and presenilin2 double knockout mice (presenilins cDKO mice) both lack Aβ, but exhibit completely different phenotypes. The peptide p3 may play a neuroprotective role. A lack of peptide p3 could trigger an inflammatory response in the brain of presenilins cDKO mice.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)543-546
Number of pages4
JournalMedical Hypotheses
Volume76
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2011

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