Alzheimer's Disease Flashcards

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What are the abnormal proteins that aggregate for each of the 4 dementias?

A

AD = Amyloid B-42
Fronto Temporal Dementia = Tau
Dementia with lewy bodies = alpha-synuclein
CJD = prion

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What are the sporadic risk factors that are linked to dementias?

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Head trauma, stroke, HTN, Diabetes, high cholesterol, low exercise, AGE

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What are the characteristic gross and histological signs of AD?

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Neuritic plaques
Neurofibrillary tangles
Synaptic and neuronal loss due to apoptosis
Brain atrophy

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What are early signs of AD?

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gradual failure of episodic memory

anosmia

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What are neuritic plaques?

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Extracellular deposits of insoluble fibrils of polymers of amyloid-beta proteins.

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What is the amyloid hypothesis?

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Extracellular accumulation of neuritic plaques leads to disruption of synaptic transmission.

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