Biochemistry of amyloid β-protein and amyloid deposits in Alzheimer disease

CL Masters, DJ Selkoe - Cold Spring …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
… isolation and partial sequencing of the meningovascular amyloid β-protein (Aβ) by George
… fundamental mechanism of Alzheimer disease (AD). Ever since Alzheimer peered through …

Degradation of the Alzheimer disease amyloid β-peptide by metal-dependent up-regulation of metalloprotease activity

AR White, T Du, KM Laughton, I Volitakis… - Journal of Biological …, 2006 - ASBMB
… Biometals play an important role in Alzheimer disease, and recent … amyloid β-peptide (Aβ)
metabolism in cell culture. Treatment of Chinese hamster ovary cells overexpressing amyloid

Validation of plasma amyloid-β 42/40 for detecting Alzheimer disease amyloid plaques

Y Li, SE Schindler, JG Bollinger, V Ovod… - Neurology, 2022 - AAN Enterprises
… for brain amyloidosis with plasma Aβ42/Aβ40 were evaluated for an Alzheimer disease
prevention trial similar to the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (A4) …

[HTML][HTML] The redox chemistry of the Alzheimer's disease amyloid β peptide

DG Smith, R Cappai, KJ Barnham - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2007 - Elsevier
… to support a role for oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with increased levels of …
of the Amyloid β peptide (Aβ), this is the result of either an elevated generation from amyloid

Cross-interactions between the Alzheimer disease amyloid-β peptide and other amyloid proteins: a further aspect of the amyloid cascade hypothesis

J Luo, SKTS Wärmländer, A Gräslund… - Journal of Biological …, 2016 - ASBMB
amyloid formation of another, different protein: the amyloid cross-… Alzheimer disease
amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide and other amyloid … between different amyloid diseases. We argue that the …

Amyloid β-protein assembly and Alzheimer disease

R Roychaudhuri, M Yang, MM Hoshi… - Journal of Biological …, 2009 - ASBMB
The biochemistry of amyloid proteins has been a fascinating and important area of research
because of its contribution to our understanding of protein folding dynamics and assembly …

Alzheimer disease therapy—moving from amyloid-β to tau

E Giacobini, G Gold - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2013 - nature.com
Disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer disease (AD) have focused mainly on reducing
levels of amyloid-β (Aβ) in the brain. Some compounds have achieved this goal, but none …

Amyloid-β in Alzheimer disease: the null versus the alternate hypotheses

H Lee, X Zhu, RJ Castellani, A Nunomura… - … of Pharmacology and …, 2007 - ASPET
… studying Alzheimer disease has been centered on amyloid-β, such that the amyloid
cascade … Indeed, amyloid-β is, by the current definition of the disease, an obligate player in …

The role of intracellular amyloid β in Alzheimer's disease

M Li, L Chen, DHS Lee, LC Yu, Y Zhang - Progress in neurobiology, 2007 - Elsevier
… Extracellular amyloid β (Aβ) that confers neurotoxicity and modulates synaptic plasticity
and memory function has been central to the amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

[PDF][PDF] Alzheimer's disease and the amyloid β protein: what is the role of amyloid?

DH Small, CA McLean - Journal of neurochemistry, 1999 - academia.edu
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by the deposition of amyloid in the extracellular
compartment of the brain in the form of congophilic amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and amyloid