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COMMENT The discovery that vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis, and influenza were protective against the development of AD was made by Verreault et al. in 2001 (Verreault et al., 2001). More recently, Liu et al. confirmed the protective effect of ...
COMMENT Comment by Ruth Itzhaki, Curtis Dobson, and Matthew Wozniak This study provides convincing experimental data for a role of Aβ as an antimicrobial peptide performing a normal function in the innate immune response [1]. It is reminiscent of the hypothesis ...
COMMENT The seeming paradox that human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-associated dementia (HAD) occurs in the absence of virus infection of neuronal cells has long been known. The presumed cause of neuronal impairment is a bystander-type effect due to ...
COMMENT The paper by Satpute-Krishnan et al. links the seemingly disparate worlds of amyloid and herpesviruses via the more neutral domain of the giant axon of the squid—the fons et origo of our knowledge about nerve conduction/impulses. The aim was to ...
COMMENT We would like to add just two points—on aetiological and therapeutic rather than immunological aspects—to those of Robinson et al. Firstly, the paper by Hock et al. refers in the discussion to patients who developed "aseptic meningoencephalitis." ...
COMMENT Ruth Itzhaki, Matthew Wozniak, Curtis Dobson, University of Manchester, UK. Inflammatory Consequences: Benevolent or Virulent? The main point by Pasinetti et al. is that there is an intriguing paradox: prevention of inflammation appears to be beneficial ...
