Air Pollution (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Air Pollution

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Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists have found that air pollution can trigger the formation of a unique strain of αSyn protein clumps in mice, resembling those seen in Lewy body dementia. Compared with mice treated with control aggregates (left), those treated with the pollution-induced strain (right) display abnormal cellular structures in dementia-related brain regions

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Xiaodi Zhang, Ph.D.

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