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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 26.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2011 Mar;14(3):285–293. doi: 10.1038/nn.2741

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Model of molecular mechanisms involved in spine pathology in Alzheimer’s disease. Aβ oligomers disrupt synaptic plasticity mechanisms and induce spine dysgenesis, likely by interfering with NMDAR-dependent regulation of the spine cytoskeleton, causing synapse loss and decreased connectivity with nearby axons (blue lines) later in life.