Study identifies pathway responsible for blood-brain barrier impairment in Alzheimer’s

Study identifies pathway responsible for blood-brain barrier impairment in Alzheimer’s

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The team found that the expression of the APOE4 gene variant in pericytes caused amyloid plaque formation in a blood-brain barrier model. Development of a model of the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) has enabled researchers to discover how APOE4 gene expression causes amyloid plaques to disrupt the brain’s vasculature […]

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