In addition, neurofibrillary tangles pathology was observed in apes that exhibited plaques and moderate or severe cerebral amyloid angiopathy and in one individual with virtually no amyloid beta pathology. (sciencedaily.com)
This condition, called cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), usually doesn't develop until people are at least 60. (newscientist.com)
The protein causes familial human cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), and the study, which appears in Nature Communications, is the first to examine forms of the protein in three different species. (sciencedaily.com)