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Carlos Cordero

You can use some plasmid that have the enzime amiloide precursor protein (APP) like pCAX APP.

Rosemary Ofili

@ Ajit, thanks so much.

Was thinking of a construct with Swedish mutation only (pcDNA-APP Swe).

However, I will take your suggestion into consideration.

@Carlos Thank you for the response.