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Chunk #39 — Use of iPSCs to model neurodegenerative diseases — iPSCs and alzheimer's disease

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Modeling Human Neurological and Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Neuronal Differentiation and Its Applications in Neurotrauma.
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Yet, the difficulty of obtaining live neurons from patients, and the incapacity to pattern the sporadic form of the disease, still represents a limitation in the understanding of AD. Nevertheless, it is now possible to surmount this problem by simply obtaining fibroblast from skin biopsy of these patients and then generating disease specific iPSCs, which would serve as a model to enrich our knowledge in this disease (Table 4).