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How does this mesh with the gingivitis correlation?

• BurningFrog 8y ago
  I wondered the same. I suppose there is nothing saying that it can't be both be a prion disease, and enter the brain through a gingivitis path.
• robbiep 8y ago
  There is an inflammatory correlation as well, it may be simply that. I have been out of the AD literature for about 6 years but back in Med school read every major paper from the 80s onwards. The flip flop between tau and AB as the causative agent was very interesting