Sentences with phrase «soluble oligomers»

Under still unknown circumstances, Tau protein forms soluble oligomers and insoluble aggregates that are closely linked to the cause and progression of various brain pathologies, including Alzheimer's disease.

Research by Finch's team in the mid -»90s also led to a startling discovery in Alzheimer's research: In 1998, working with neuroscientists at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, the group reported that amyloid — the insoluble protein that piles up in the Alzheimer's - afflicted brain — is also highly neurotoxic when it clusters into small but soluble oligomers, dubbed ADDLs.

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To recycle the skin, the device is soaked into recycling solution, making the polymers degrade into oligomers (polymers with polymerization degree usually below 10) and monomers (small molecules that can be joined together into polymers) that are soluble in ethanol.