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Grant: PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Primary Recipient

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$35,740.00

Award Date

7/14/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Accumulation of beta-amyloid (Ab) in brain extracellular fluids is the key event in the amyloid cascade leading to neuronal cell damage in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Our preliminary data suggest that the choroid plexus sequesters Ab from th