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neuritis

Peripheral nerve inflammation caused by injury, poisoning, or disease, and accompanied by sensory and motor changes in the area of the affected nerve.
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VIENNA -- Good linguistic ability in early life seems to stave off the dementia of Alzheimer's disease, even when neuritic plaques and tangles are present in the brain.
Early linguistic ability may stall later dementia by Sullivan, Michele G. / Clinical Psychiatry News
Usually neuritic plaques composed of amyloid [beta]-protein (A[beta]) are an early and invariant neuropathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), [41].
Review: structure of amyloid fibril in diseases by Ghahghaei, Arezou; Faridi, Nasim / Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering (JBiSE)
27) Studies of biological mechanisms suggests that development of the neuritic plaques associated with AD pathology can be prevented by NSAIDs, although this effect is only found given an intact brain with no cognitive decline, and there is a lag of several years in their physiological effect.
Alzheimer's disease: new perspectives on integration of ... by Moghaddam, Mojdeh; Yen, Yung-Chieh; Gross, Alden L.; Rebok, George W. / Journal of Medical Psychology
 
 
 
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