Cause of neuronal death in Down's syndrome, Alzheimer's disease could be surprisin...( e Italy; Kumar Sambamurti and Peter P....)

e, Italy; Kumar Sambamurti and Peter P. Chung of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC; Weiming Xia and William A. Campbell of Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA; Angela Villar, Charles J. Epstein, of University of California, San Francisco in San Francisco, CA; Laura Shapiro Kulnane and Bruce T. Lamb of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH; Ralph A. Nixon of Nathan Kline Institute in Orangeburg, NY; Gorazd B. Stokin and Lawrence S.B. Goldstein of University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, CA; of Stanford University and Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA.

This research was sponsored by grants from the NIA (AG16999, W.C.M.), NINDS (NS38869, W.C.M.), NICHD (31498, C.J.E.), Adler Foundation (J.D.D.), Alzheimer Association and State of California Alzheimer's Program (A.S. and W.C.M.), McGowan Charitable Trust, Larry L. Hillblom Foundation, and the Down Syndrome Research and Treatment Foundation (W.C.M.).

(Dorsey et al.)

The researchers include Susan G. Dorsey of the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore, MD (formerly of the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, MD); Cynthia Renn and Christopher W. Ward of the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore, MD; Linda Bambrick and Bruce K. Krueger of the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD; Laura Carim-Todd, Colleen A. Barrick, and Lino Tessarollo of the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, MD.

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