Sentences with phrase «deposits of amyloid proteins»

«The activity of the microglia is stimulated by dying brain cells, not by the deposits of amyloid proteins, called plaques, which also occur in Alzheimer's disease,» Haass notes.

An enzyme intended to clear deposits of amyloid protein in the brain didn't help people with Alzheimer's disease

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Because PIB selectively binds to brain amyloid deposits but quickly clears from normal tissue, the chemical dye accurately indicates the amount of protein that is deposited in the living brain.

Previously, researchers have focused on the role of protein deposits called amyloid plaques that lodge in the brain of Alzheimer's affected people.

More than 40 illnesses known as amyloid diseases — Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and rheumatoid arthritis are a few — are linked to the buildup of proteins after they have transformed from their normally folded, biologically active forms to abnormally folded, grouped deposits called fibrils or plaques.

Studies in mice specially bred to have features of the disease found that DHA reduces beta - amyloid plaques, abnormal protein deposits in the brain that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's, although a clinical trial of DHA showed no impact on people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

In the new study, Ances and colleagues used one of these tags and an amyloid - binding one to analyze deposits of both proteins in 10 people with mild AD and 36 healthy adults.

The fibrils of the body's own amyloid beta (Aβ) protein are the main constituent of Alzheimer's disease related and characteristic pathological protein deposits in the brain.

Immunotherapy is a promising strategy for the treatment of Alzheimer's that uses antibodies to stimulate the immune system to remove pieces of a protein called amyloid beta which accumulates in the brain (in deposits known as plaques) and is thought to be a major factor driving Alzheimer's neurodegenerative effects.

Other researchers later showed that the brains of men with CTE had a second type of protein deposit called amyloid, another hallmark of Alzheimer's.

This study is important as it shows that a single night of sleep deprivation can lead to an increase in amyloid, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease, deposited in the brain.

«This study reports amyloid protein deposits in the blood vessels of four people decades after receiving brain surgery.

Interestingly, most of the people showing the amyloid deposits in their brains did not also have the other hallmark sign of Alzheimer's, the fibrous tangles of the tau protein.

The researchers were specifically looking at levels of beta - amyloid deposits in spaces between nerve cells as well as tangles, knotted threads of the tau protein inside brain cells.

Familial amyloid polyneuropathy is characterized by abnormal protein deposits that can affect the nerves and other functions of the body.

The researchers were looking for two specific types of protein: deposits of beta - amyloid plaque and knotted threads of tau protein tangles.

Scientists have identified a basic pathologic process underlying Alzheimer's development that involves the formation of abnormal protein deposits in the brain known as beta - amyloid plaques, but they still aren't entirely sure what causes this to happen.

The other is amyloidosis, a condition in which deposits of the protein amyloid collect in canine organs and tissues.

Amyloidosis refers to a variety of conditions in which amyloid proteins are abnormally deposited in organs and / or tissues.