Sentences with phrase «signs of amyloid plaques»

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The brains of people with Alzheimer's show several signs of the disease: plaques made of a protein called amyloid - β, tangles of a protein called tau and the loss of neurons.

Scientists have long considered clumps of amyloid plaques — sticky, barnacle - like protein bundles — to be the first sign of Alzheimer's.

AMYLOID plaques are a sign of Alzheimer's disease, and bad news for humans.

Two participants had remarkably clean brains with few signs of amyloid - beta plaques and tangles of tau protein.

That agent, aducanumab, is designed to bind preferentially to the early clumps of amyloid as they form plaques, and therefore may be more useful in mild or moderate patients who are already showing signs of memory loss and other cognitive problems.