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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&beta;-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 <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.K.V. Kumar at Massachusetts General Hospital in Charlestown, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Amyloid-&szlig; 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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