Amyloid

Researchers at the University of California-San Francisco’s Gladstone Institute and the Baylor College of Medicine discovered a mechanism by which the protein Amyloid-beta might impair neurological functions in Alzheimer’s disease.

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The Alzheimer's toxin Aß is generated from a much larger protein known as the Amyloid Precursor Protein ( "APP").

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Researchers at ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne and at the University of Fribourg have evidenced a basic general mechanism describing how filamentous proteins assemble into ribbon like structures, the so-called Amyloid fibrils.

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Researchers at ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne and at the University of Fribourg have evidenced a basic general mechanism describing how filamentous proteins assemble into ribbon like structures, the so-called Amyloid fibrils.

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They found that blood plasma levels of a peptide called Amyloid Beta (AB42) appear to increase before the onset of Alzheimer's and decrease shortly after a person develops the disease, which may be because AB42 becomes trapped in the brain.

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Amyloid fluctuations weren't associated with subjects' behavior and were more pronounced in younger controls.

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Amyloid levels remained fairly constant in the group with brain plaques.

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Amyloid is thought to be one of the major contributors to Alzheimer's disease.

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Amyloid levels also significantly increased in controls and amyloid-negative subjects compared with amyloid-positive subjects, possibly because of interrupted sleep and stress related to the experiment as demonstrated on EEG recordings, researchers said.

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"Amyloid plaques may be like gravestones that signify the end stage of the disease," Tariot says.

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