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23. Senile plaques and neurofibrillar degeneration: Difference between revisions

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'''Theory''':
'''Theory''': Alzheimer’s disease most commonly affects the hippocampus first, and then the frontal and temporal lobes before it becomes a diffuse process. This slide is overstained, so the characteristic findings are therefore hard to distinguish from background noise.[[File:Alzheimer - NFTs.png|thumb|These nerve cell bodies are stained black as they contain neurofibrillary tangles|left]]
 
Alzheimer’s disease most commonly affects the hippocampus first, and then the frontal and temporal lobes before it becomes a diffuse process. This slide is overstained, so the characteristic findings are therefore hard to distinguish from background noise.[[File:Alzheimer - NFTs.png|thumb|These nerve cell bodies are stained black as they contain neurofibrillary tangles|left]]
[[Category:Pathology 2 - Histopathology slides]]
[[Category:Pathology 2 - Histopathology slides]]