Senile plaque in cerebral cortex, light micrograph

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Light micrograph of a human cerebral cortex showing a senile plaque, stained with a silver method. The plaques are extracellular deposits of amyloid beta which appear in large numbers in Alzheimer's disease.

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Photo credit: © JOSE CALVO / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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