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Sex and Immunogen-Specific Benefits of Immunotherapy Targeting Islet Amyloid Polypeptide in Transgenic and Wild-Type Mice.

Frontiers in endocrinology

Krishnamurthy PK, Rajamohamedsait HB, Gonzalez V, Rajamohamedsait WJ, Ahmed N, Krishnaswamy S, Sigurdsson EM.
PMID: 27379014
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2016 Jun 14;7:62. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2016.00062. eCollection 2016.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is characterized by the deposition of islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) as amyloid in islets, a process thought to be toxic to β-cells. To determine the feasibility of targeting these aggregates therapeutically, we vaccinated transgenic (Tg)...

Mechanistic Studies of Antibody-Mediated Clearance of Tau Aggregates Using an ex vivo Brain Slice Model.

Frontiers in psychiatry

Krishnamurthy PK, Deng Y, Sigurdsson EM.
PMID: 22025915
Front Psychiatry. 2011 Oct 21;2:59. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00059. eCollection 2011.

Recent studies have shown that immunotherapy clears amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and reduces Aβ levels in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as well as in AD patients. Tangle pathology is also relevant for the neurodegeneration in AD, and...

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