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Study confirms imaging compound identifies amyloid-beta in human brain

A team led by Massachusetts General Hospital investigators has confirmed that the imaging agent Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB) binds to the protein in amyloid plaques that characterize Alzheimer's disease in the human brain. Their report describes the first postmortem neuropathological study of a dementia patient who had previously participated in a PET imaging study using PiB.

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