Toxicity of non‐Aβ component of Alzheimer's disease amyloid, and N‐terminal fragments thereof, correlates to formation of β‐sheet structure and fibrils
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- 1 April 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 267 (8) , 2186-2194
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01219.x
Abstract
The non-Aβ component of Alzheimer's disease amyloid (NAC) and its precursor α-synuclein have been linked to amyloidogenesis in Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lew...Keywords
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