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COMMENT Some years ago, after Fred had given a wonderful talk on Alzheimer’s disease, I wrote to him to ask if I could use some of his diagrams. He responded by sending all his carefully drawn slides, saying we could use them without restriction. That is so unusu
COMMENT Bocharova et al. present an interesting perspective on the role of Aβ as an antimicrobial peptide. Rob Moir and colleagues had reported earlier that Aβ has antimicrobial activity in vitro against bacteria and yeast (Soscia et al., 2010), agglutinates Cand
COMMENT This interesting study overlooks that PrP, like Alzheimer Aβ (Soscia et al., 2010; Moir et al., 2018), and probably also α-synuclein (Park et al., 2016), is an antimicrobial protein (AMP)—as pointed out by Artur Schmidtchen and colleagues in Sweden (Pasup
COMMENT Scientific Officer of XENOTOX, Inc., is the co-author of this comment. 0 richardlathe_135176 Herpes simplex
COMMENT Microbes and Alzheimer's Disease: Paradigm Change In this article Readhead et al. provide fresh impetus to the link between infection and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). A causal link has long been suspected (Itzhaki et al., 2016), underlined by the findin
COMMENT The finding of Carrasco and colleagues (Pisa et al., 2015) of fungal species in Alzheimer disease (AD) brains is of great interest. This follows on from earlier reports of herpes simplex virus (Itzhaki and Wozniak, 2008) and bacteria including spirochetes
