Sentences with phrase «long fibrils»

In Alzheimer's disease proteins clump together to long fibrils causing the death of nerve cells.

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This peptide, 39 to 42 amino acids long, is toxic to nerve cells and is able to form elongated fibrils.

Many peptides and proteins have an innate ability to assemble into long, slender fibers called fibrils and other shapes.

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

He argues that if those oligomers and fibrils weren't needed, evolution would have eliminated them long ago.