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Researchers find magnetite nanoparticles similar to those from traffic pollution in brain; possible link with Alzheimer’s

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Professor Barbara Maher, from Lancaster Environment Centre, and colleagues (from Oxford, Glasgow, Manchester and Mexico City) used spectroscopic analysis to identify the particles as magnetite. Dobson (2003) “Preliminary evaluation of nanoscale biogenic magnetite in Alzheimer’s disease brain tissue” Proc. Hautot et al. India study.

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