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  2. Researchers Found A Link Between This Childhood Virus ... - AOL

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    Plus, the study didn’t necessarily find that CMV causes Alzheimer’s disease. Instead, it found that people who developed Alzheimer's were also more likely to have goten the virus.

  3. Common virus could be behind Alzheimer’s in some people ...

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    A chronic gut infection caused by a common virus may be linked to the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study has found. Cytomegalovirus, or HCMV, is one of nine herpes viruses that most ...

  4. Is Alzheimer's linked to the cold-sore-causing herpes virus?

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    A new study has identified a potential link between Alzheimer’s disease and the herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1). The new research also found that tau protein in the brain, considered a hallmark ...

  5. Alzheimer's disease - Wikipedia

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    A Japanese pedigree of familial Alzheimer's disease was found to be associated with a deletion mutation of codon 693 of APP. [74] This mutation and its association with Alzheimer's disease was first reported in 2008, [75] and is known as the Osaka mutation. Only homozygotes with this mutation have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's ...

  6. Swedish mutation - Wikipedia

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    However, because the only difference between the family members who developed Alzheimer's disease and those that did not in these families was the inheritance of the mutation in the amyloid gene, this suggested that the amyloid protein itself could cause the disease. The idea that amyloid could cause the disease influenced scientific research ...

  7. Dementia - Wikipedia

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    Inflammatory pathogens are an indicator of Alzheimer's disease and bacteria related to gum disease have been found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease. [151] The bacteria invade nerve tissue in the brain, increasing the permeability of the blood–brain barrier and promoting the onset of Alzheimer's.

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