Sentences with phrase «fragments of the amyloid precursor protein»
Beta amyloid plaques can form when particular fragments of the amyloid precursor protein (APP), cleaved by the enzyme gamma secretase, clump together.
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In the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyloid precursor protein is broken apart, and the resulting fragments — β - amyloid peptides, or Aβ peptides — aggregate to form plaques.
Our microscopy studies with quantitative co-localization analysis revealed the presence of intraneuronal Aβ in transgenic rats, with an immunological signal that was clearly distinguished from that of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and its C - terminal fragments (CTFs).
Beta amyloid is a fragment of a protein snipped from another protein called amyloid precursor protein (APP).