Sentences with phrase «called oligomers»

Small poisonous Aβ assemblies, called oligomers, bind strongly to vulnerable neurons in the brain, but in the presence of collagen VI, this binding was blocked.

And that sequence can form long chains called oligomers as well as fibers called fibrils.

Traditional methods for mapping HIV genetic material use long strings of these nucleotides, called oligomers, to find and bind to complementary strands of DNA or RNA in sample tissues.

«The rotelle — technically called oligomers — are basically wrapped - up polymers,» Lupton says.

At the same time, researchers have found that much smaller protein clusters called oligomers — made of only a few copies of these proteins — can be highly toxic to motor neuron - like cells grown in the lab and thus are more likely to be the chief causes of brain - cell death in these diseases.

TAML treatment at this pH caused BPA to assemble into larger units called oligomers, which clump together and precipitate out of the water.

But these days most neuroscientists agree that a tiny particle form of the same protein, called an oligomer, is the primary toxin in the illness.

Not exact matches

Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT)(Finland) and University of Tübingen (Germany) has shown that carefully structured light and matching arrangements of metal nanostructures (so - called «plasmonic oligomers») can be combined to alter the properties of the generated light at the nanometer scale.

The new process developed by the team, in collaboration with Dr Julien Poly from the Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse, France, is called «vinyl oligomer combination».

Amyloid - β 42 (Aβ42) has a strong ability to oligomerize to form diffusible oligomers as well as larger polymers called fibrils that form insoluble amyloid plaques, a major hallmark of AD.