Sentences with phrase «nature of amyloid»

The nature of amyloid disease makes it difficult to qualify for most life insurance policies because amyloid disease can affect so many different parts of the body in may «unpredictable» ways.

(NaturalHealth365) Today, we reveal the true nature of amyloid plaque and its connection to Alzheimer's disease.

Not exact matches

Four of the seven peptides made amyloids that could break down organic molecules called esters (Nature Chemistry, doi.org/rxf).

But the nature of these dimers has been hotly debated because it was not known whether the two beta - amyloid molecules that form the dimer were linked by a chemical bond or not.

Now Filippo Rossi of the University of Verona and his colleagues elsewhere in Italy and in Philadelphia have identified a mechanism to explain how β - amyloid and the brain's microglia act together to kill nerve cells (Nature, vol 374, p 647).

The drug halved the rate of Alzheimer's cognitive decline but was overlooked when the beta - amyloid theory of the disease became dominant (Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038 / ncomms7760).

The light seemed to boost the activity of cells that clear amyloid, and cut amyloid production (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature20587).

And more direct evidence for its role in making plaques is the fact that cells produced more beta amyloid if they contained certain mutated forms of nicastrin, the researchers report in the 7 September issue of Nature.

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology recently unveiled an unexpected discovery about amyloid in an article published in the Nature Photonics journal.

Additional experiments with cultured cells suggested that the mutation interferes with one of the enzymes that breaks down the APP protein and causes a 40 % reduction in β amyloid formation, Stefansson and colleagues report online today in Nature.

Nature - http://www.nature.com/nsu/040105/040105-6.html Researchers may have pinpointed the cause of Alzheimer's disease - a rogue protein called amyloid beta (A?)

«These findings give us some fundamental insights in how amyloid fibers form,» says Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist, lead scientist in the research team whose results will be published in the June 9 issue of the journal Nature.

The nature of those plaques finally came into focus in 1984, when George Glenner, a research scientist at the University of California, San Diego, identified the peptide called amyloid - beta and hypothesized that Alzheimer's was caused by «amyloidosis» of the brain, a process in which insoluble forms of an amyloid protein accumulate.

In a recent Nature News article, Boer Deng highlights an emerging idea in the Alzheimerâ $ ™ s field that may partly explain why: not all forms of aggregated amyloid - beta are the same.

In the October 19, 2006, issue of Nature (available online Oct. 11), the researchers describe the structures of insulin - degrading enzyme (IDE) in complex with four of the proteins it digests: insulin, amyloid - beta, amylin and glucagon.