Neurotoxicity of Alzheimer’s disease Ab peptides is induced by small changes in the Ab42 to Ab40 ratio
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Inna Kuperstein, Kerensa Broersen, Iryna Benilova, Jef Rozenski, Wim Jonckheere, Maja Debulpaep, Annelies Vandersteen, Ine Segers-Nolten, Kees Van Der Werf, Vinod Subramaniam, Dries Braeken, Geert Callewaert, Carmen Bartic, Rudi D’Hooge, Ivo Cristiano Martins, Frederic Rousseau*, Joost Schymkowitz* and Bart De Strooper* Department for Molecular and Developmental Genetics, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Leuven, Belgium, Center for Human Genetics, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium, Switch Laboratory, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Brussels, Belgium, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, IMEC, Bioelectronic Systems Group, Heverlee, Belgium, Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium, Faculty of Science and Technology, Nanobiophysics, MESAþ Institute for Nanotechnology, MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 8 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory of Solid State Physics and Magnetism, KULeuven, Belgium and Laboratory of Biological Psychology, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium
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